Acral skin is the most prevalent site of malignant melanoma in non-Caucasian populations. On acral skin, other various kinds of pigmented lesions are also detected. Particularly, melanocytic nevus is commonly seen on acral volar skin; approximately 10% of Japanese have a nevus on their soles. Prognosis of acral melanoma is still generally poor because of delayed detection in the advanced stages...

Biometric scanners have become widely popular in providing security to information technology and entry to otherwise sensitive locations. However, these systems have been proven to be vulnerable to spoofing, or granting entry to an imposter using fake fingers. While matching algorithms are highly successful in identifying the unique fingerprint biometric of an individual, they lack the ability ...

various dermatoglyphic parameters like finger print pattern, atd angle, absolute ridge count & ab, bc ,cd, and ad ridge counts were observed in 150 cases of congenital cardiac disease, comprising of 72 cases of ventricular septal defects (vsd), 60 cases of atrial septal defects (asd), 9 cases of coarctation of aorta (coa) & 9 cases of tetralogy of fallot’s (tof). same dermatoglyphic parameters ...

The paper presents a skeleton-based approach for robust detection of perceptually salient shape features. Given a shape approximated by a polygonal surface, its skeleton is extracted using a three-dimensional Voronoi diagram technique proposed recently by Amenta et al. 3. Shape creases, ridges and ravines, are detected as curves corresponding to skeletal edges. Salient shape regions are extract...

Online time series change detection is a critical component of many monitoring systems, such as space and air-borne remote sensing instruments, cardiac monitors, and network traffic profilers, which continuously analyze observations recorded by sensors. Data collected by such sensors typically has a periodic component. Most existing time series change detection methods are not directly applicab...

Enantioselective anti-L-amino acid antibodies conjugated to gold nanoparticles are shown to facilitate the detection of latent fingermarks by interacting with amino acids present in friction ridge secretions. This antibody-based system is particularly effective for the enhancement of aged and dried fingermarks on non-porous surfaces, an area unexploited by current techniques.

1 An original technique, based on ridge point detection directly from gray scale ngerprint images, is proposed. Our method avoids serious problems that algorithms which perform binarization of ngerprint images have. Each step can be easily hardware implemented, allowing a relevant speed up of the whole pro-

Introduction: The study of dermatoglyphics patterns on the digital and palmar region and its association with various diseases, especially having genetic causes, has been reported by various workers in the past. Recently, the number of patients with diabetes and hypertension (HTN) have strikingly increased in the most countries. The prevalence of HTN in patients with Type 2 diabetes is known to...