1 Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA 2 Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA 3 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 4 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 USA 5 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 U...

Ridges and ravines are the main components constituting a "ngerprint. Traditional automatic "ngerprint identi"cation systems (AFIS) are based on minutiaematching techniques. The minutiae for "ngerprint identi"cation are de"ned by ridge termination and ridge bifurcation. Most AFIS perform ridge line following process to automatically detect minutiae based on binary or skeleton "ngerprint image. ...

Thin ridges often pose hindrance in oral implant placement. Inadequate width of ridge requires Innovative techniques in placing implants. One of such techniques is ridge splitting technique, Which helps expansion of the ridge with or without fracture of cortical plates. This technique has the advantage of immediate implant loading, in comparison with other ridge widening techniques. This articl...

An average inter-ridge distance (AID) computation method is proposed, and the average inter-ridge distance is used to classify fingerprint images. This method is experimentally proved to be able to speed up retrieving a fingerprint from the template database that is organized according to the inter -ridge distance. Inter-ridge distance-based classification method has the property of being able ...

Shuhua Liang, 2 Gonzalo Alvarez, Cengiz Şen, 2 Adriana Moreo, 2 and Elbio Dagotto 2 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA Computer Science and Mathematics Division and Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laborat...