Dental X-ray has played an important role in identification of missing or unidentified persons. Particularly in cases where other identification clues like fingerprint, iris, etc. are not available and, moreover, dental features remain more or less invariant over time. The purpose of dental image processing is to match the Post-mortem (PM) radiograph with the Antemortem (AM) radiograph based on some unique feature of the radiograph. The first step is to enhance the quality of image and region of interest can be separated. Unique features of a tooth are extracted and identification is performed based on matching of these feature vectors of PM images with those of AM images available in the database. A new feature based on triangular geometry of the tooth has been proposed and thereafter matching of query and database images is performed for identification of the subject. This feature is called the tooth taper parameter.
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Braz J Otorhinolaryngol
January 2025
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine, Hainan Branch of Shanghai Children's Medical Center, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Sanya, China; Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai Children's Medical Center, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Shanghai, China. Electronic address:
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Curr Cardiol Rev
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Division of Applied Biomedical Science and Biotechnology, School of Health Sciences, IMU University, 126, Jalan Jalil Perkasa 19, Bukit Jalil, 57000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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ACS Appl Mater Interfaces
January 2025
School of Integrated Circuits, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China.
Designing efficient and cost-effective electrocatalysts toward oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) under demanding acidic environments plays a critical role in advancing proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). Metal-nitrogen-carbon (M-N-C) catalysts with atomically dispersed metals have gained attention for their affordability, excellent catalytic performance, and distinctive features including consistent active sites and high atomic utilization. Over the past decade, significant achievements have been made in this field.
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Second Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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