This paper examines the possibility of predicting ethnicity based on iris texture. This is possible if there are similarities of the iris texture of a certain ethnicity, and these similarities differ from ethnicity to ethnicity. This sort of “soft biometric” prediction could be used, for example, to narrow the search of an enrollment database for a match to probe sample. Using an iris image dat...

Human faces provide demographic information, such as gender and ethnicity. Different modalities of human faces, e.g., range and intensity, provide different cues for gender and ethnicity identifications. In this paper we exploit the range information of human faces for ethnicity identification using a support vector machine. An integration scheme is also proposed for ethnicity and gender identi...

OBJECTIVE To describe the accuracy of ethnicity coding in contemporary National Health Service (NHS) hospital records compared with the 'gold standard' of self-reported ethnicity. DESIGN Secondary analysis of data from a cross-sectional survey (2011). SETTING All NHS hospitals in England providing cancer treatment. PARTICIPANTS 58 721 patients with cancer for whom ethnicity information (O...