A system for a computer-aided biometric analysis and diagnosis of crane teleradiograms

The integrated, computer system for the biometric analysis of teleradiograms, supporting the diagnosing in orthodentistry is presented in the article. The architecture of the system is described. Image acquisition, image analysis, graphical and database maintenance functions are discussed briefly. The system is provided with a number of image enhancement methods, with automatic functions of drawing biometric lines, with automatic calculator of biometric characteristics according to the chosen method and with patients' database filling functions. In the article, image enhancement and features extraction issues are discussed in more detailed form and same original implementation results are provided.