Determination age and gender with edge detection algorithms using dental X-ray images

Abstract

Age determination in forensic medicine is a very important issue in terms of criminal and law. In case of any disaster or unlawfulness, identification may be required. In such cases, the competent authorities ask the forensic medicine institution for determining the age. Forensic medicines must make the most accurate process of determining the age. In this study, a database was created manually with a total of 1313 teeth images to determine age and gender. Images in this database are pre-processed with image processing techniques. Numerical data were obtained according to the tanimoto similarity rates of images. This numerical data is saved in the XML file. Comparing is done with the data on this XML file. In addition to the age determination process, gender determination process was also carried out. Age determination was performed with +-0 error. The application was developed in C # programming language.