Law enforcement agencies around the world use ridge-based biometrics, especially fingerprints, to fight crime. Fingermarks that are left at a crime scene and identified as potentially having evidential value (EV) in a court of law are recorded for further forensic analysis. Here, we test our evidential value algorithm (EVA) which uses image features trained on forensic expert decisions for 1428...

Fingerprint image enhancement is a common and critical step in fingerprint recognition systems. To enhance the images, most of the existing enhancement algorithms use filtering techniques that can be categorized into isotropic and anisotropic according to the filter kernel. Isotropic filtering can properly preserve features on the input images but can hardly improve the quality of the images. O...

Two challenges for taxonomists are proper identification of specimens to known species and extracting information from specimens to diagnose new species. Both tasks are complicated by the very large numbers of known and unknown species and the dwindling numbers of qualified taxonomists to identify/diagnose them all. Automated species identification is a tool that can assist taxonomists facing t...

discussion this segmental ridge-split procedure with gradual bone expansion provides a quicker method wherein an atrophic ridge can be predictably expanded and eliminating the need for a second surgical site. this technique also shows that immediate implantation in split ridge of mandible can be performed. introduction narrow alveolar ridges especially in posterior mandibular remains a serious ...

F. A. Nielsen, C. Goutte and L. K. Hansen Dept. of Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark Introduction We describe a exible semi-parametric linear time-invariant convolution model for the fMRI response. It extends the FIR model [1] with a Gaussian process prior over the parameters (the FIR coe cients). Linear models with Poisson, Gamma and Gaussian kernels have...

This paper describes an approach to image modelling using interscale phase relationships of wavelet coefficients for use in image estimation applications. The method is based on the Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (DT-CWT) but a phase rotation is applied to the coefficients to create complex ‘derotated’ coefficients. These derotated coefficients are shown to have increased correlation compa...

The aim of this paper is to propose some diagnostic methods in linear ridge measurement error models with stochastic linear restrictions using the corrected likelihood. Based on the bias-corrected estimation of model parameters, diagnostic measures are developed to identify outlying and influential observations. In addition, we derive the corrected score test statistic for outliers detection ba...

  Objective: Alveolar ridge preservation in patients with inadequate bone volume is one treatment option for successful implant placement and can be done by using bone graft materials. On the other hand, Ceno Bone has been recently produced by Hamanand Saz Baft Kish Co. as a bone bioimplant of allograft origin. This study aimed to assess the clinical, histologic and histomorphometric results of...

For the problem of estimating a sparse sequence of coefficients of a parametric or nonparametric generalized linear model, posterior mode estimation with a Subbotin(λ, ν) prior achieves thresholding and therefore model selection when ν ∈ [0, 1] for a class of likelihood functions. The proposed estimator also offers a continuum between the (forward/backward) best subset estimator (ν = 0), its ap...