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New Automated System IDs Victims of Mass Disasters in Minutes

Date:11/27/2007

tal treatment. The total number of pairs was 3,600. The system produced three candidates to match each patient's x-ray. Computation time averaged 3.6 seconds per pair. The recognition rate was 87 percent for the first candidate, increased to 98 percent for the second candidate and to 100 percent for the third. These top three candidates were then evaluated by forensic experts for the final matching decision, thus cutting the workload of the experts by 95 percent.

"Our testing has demonstrated the accuracy and efficiency of the image-matching system," said study co-author Koichi Ito, Ph.D., assistant professor at the Graduate School of Information Sciences at Tohoku University in Japan.

Drs. Kosuge and Ito predict that the system can be put into practice within a year.

"In the case of a mass disaster, the public will never know that this system was used," Dr. Kosuge said. "What they will know is that instead of waiting a month for their loved ones to be returned, they will wait only days."

Co-authors are R. Kawamata, D.D.S., I. Kashima, Ph.D., A. Nikaido, B.Eng., and T. Aoki, Ph.D.

Note: Copies of RSNA 2007 news releases and electronic images will be available online at RSNA.org/press07 beginning Monday, Nov. 26.

RSNA is an association of more than 41,000 radiologists, radiation oncologists, medical physicists and related scientists committed to excellence in patient care through education and research. The Society is based in Oak Brook, Ill. (RSNA.org)

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