New biometric approach based on geometrical humain brain patterns recognition: Some preliminary results

In this paper, we describe a new biometric approach based on geometrical characteristics of brain shape. Specifically, we use these geometrics characteristics as a biometric feature to identify individuals. For this purpose, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images are considered. We show that using a single slice from an MRI volumetric image, acquired at a given level, one can extract many significant geometrical descriptors related to inter-individual variability of brain shape that can be also used to identify individuals. Explicitly, the proposed biometric approach combines two main phases. In the first phase, features extraction (FE) are achieved in order to obtain brain geometrical descriptors vector, called in this work GDB vector. A second phase is called similarity measurement (SM). Finally, the proposed algorithm is evaluated on the Open Access Series of Imaging Studies (OASIS) database containing brain MRI Images. Results using 220 classes show that high accuracy of 98.76% to identify individuals are obtained.