Giving Infants an Identity

Jain, Anil K.; Arora, Sunpreet S.; Best-Rowden, Lacey; Cao, Kai; Sudhish, Prem Sewak; Bhatnagar, Anjoo; Koda, Yoshinori

doi:10.1145/2909609.2909612

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“…To our knowledge, this is the first study to leverage the developing cortical folding as the biometric trait for infant identification. There are a few infant identification studies based on other conventional biometric traits, for example, fingerprint (Jain et al, ), footprint (E. Liu, ), face (Bharadwaj, Bhatt, Singh, Vatsa, & Singh, ), or iris (Corby et al, ). Compared to the cortical folding features, these biometric traits are more convenient to acquire.…”

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Individual identification and individual variability analysis based on cortical folding features in developing infant singletons and twins

Duan

Xia

Rekik

et al. 2020

Human Brain Mapping

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Studying the early dynamic development of cortical folding with remarkable individual variability is critical for understanding normal early brain development and related neurodevelopmental disorders. This study focuses on the fingerprinting capability and the individual variability of cortical folding during early brain development. Specifically, we aim to explore (a) whether the developing neonatal cortical folding is unique enough to be considered as a "fingerprint" that can reliably identify an individual within a cohort of infants; (b) which cortical regions manifest more individual variability and thus contribute more for infant identification; (c) whether the infant twins can be distinguished by cortical folding. Hence, for the first time, we conduct infant individual identification and individual variability analysis involving twins based on the developing cortical folding features (mean curvature, average convexity, and sulcal depth) in 472 neonates with 1,141 longitudinal MRI scans. Experimental results show that the infant individual identification achieves 100% accuracy when using the neonatal cortical folding features to predict the identities of 1-and 2-year-olds. Besides, we observe high identification capability in the high-order association cortices (i.e., prefrontal, lateral temporal, and inferior parietal regions) and two unimodal cortices (i.e., precentral gyrus and lateral occipital cortex), which largely overlap with the regions encoding remarkable individual variability in cortical folding during the first 2 years. For twins study, we show that even for monozygotic twins with identical genes and similar developmental environments, their cortical folding features are unique enough for accurate individual identification; and in some high-order association cortices, the differences between monozygotic twin pairs are significantly lower than those between dizygotic twins. This study thus provides important insights into individual identification and individual variability based on cortical folding during infancy. K E Y W O R D S cortical folding, individual variability, infant identification, twins study

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Individual identification and individual variability analysis based on cortical folding features in developing infant singletons and twins

Duan

Xia

Rekik

et al. 2020

Human Brain Mapping

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“…We were also particularly impressed with the work by Jain et al. [ 182 , 183 ] on adapting sensors and matching algorithms to allow the identification of very young infants. The contexts for application include child tracking, vaccination campaigns, missing children, or newborn swaps.…”

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Interpol review of fingermarks and other body impressions 2016–2019

Bécue

Eldridge

Champod

2020

Forensic Science International: Synergy

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“…As is the experience for fingerprint [11,12], acquisition of ridge skin pattern for infants aged less than a few weeks is particularly difficult, with the skin of a newborn drying, cracking, and flaking on exposure to air. Extraction of local-level features (minutiae) from V1 images of ballprints was only possible in a small number of cases.…”

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“…The most recent account of child fingerprint recognition studies appears in [11], where 309 children in the age range 0-5 years were tracked over periods ranging from 2 months to 1 year with up to four sample periods. A purpose-built high-resolution scanner [12] was employed to acquire thumbprints (only) and encouraging results obtained for children over 6 months old. For children 0-6 months old, verification and search performance dropped dramatically, with the authors noting that capturing good quality prints in this age range remains a notable challenge.…”

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Steps to solving the infant biometric problem with ridge‐based biometrics

Kotzerke¹,

Davis²,

McVernon

et al. 2018

IET biom.

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The pressing infant biometric problem is to find a biometric means to identify infants cheaply, reliably, and automatically. Physical traits of infants are tiny, delicate, and grow rapidly. The authors focus on a novel area of friction-ridge skin as a potential answer: the ball under the big toe. The ballprint is readily accessible, with more features and larger ridges than a fingerprint. The authors followed 54 newborns for 2 years, capturing their ballprints with an adult fingerprint scanner within 3 days of birth, at 2 months, at 6 months, and at 2 years. The authors show the growth of the ballprint is isotropic rather than affine during infancy. The isotropic growth rate from birth can be measured by the change in inter-ridge spacing, which the authors show precisely mirrors change in physical length from birth, as recorded by World Health Organisation for large, diverse infant populations. From 2 months of age, by using isotropic scaling to compensate for growth, the authors successfully matched good quality images with 0% equal error rate using existing adult fingerprint technology, even for captures 22 months apart. These findings flag the value of ballprints as a practical means of infant identification, by themselves, or together or sequentially with other biometrics.

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Giving Infants an Identity

Cited by 31 publications

References 4 publications

Individual identification and individual variability analysis based on cortical folding features in developing infant singletons and twins

Individual identification and individual variability analysis based on cortical folding features in developing infant singletons and twins

Interpol review of fingermarks and other body impressions 2016–2019

Steps to solving the infant biometric problem with ridge‐based biometrics

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