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Would You Believe This Body Part Could Be Used to Reveal Your Identity?

Jan. 28, 2013 5:52pm Liz Klimas

When people think of collecting biometric data for identification, they think eye scans, facial recognition or finger printing. But a new study has revealed that another, more unexpected scan could be more accurate: knee scans.

That’s right, your kneecaps are more uniquely identifying than you might think.

Research Finds MRI Scans of the Knee Accurate as a Biometric Identifier

Image showing MRI scans of the knee. (Photo: Shutterstock.com)

The research published by computer scientist Lior Shamir of Lawrence Technological University in the International Journal of Biometrics used MRI scans of the knees of more than 2,000 patients to show that the images were about 93 percent accurate at identifying the correct person.

Use of this technology could be more accurate, according to Shamir, than other biometrics because it is harder for people to try and alter.

“Deceptive manipulation requires an invasive and complicated medical procedure, and therefore it is more resistant to spoofing compared to methods such as face, fingerprints, or iris,” Shamir said in a statement.

Use of this technology is part of the larger work of internal biometrics, which could be used while people are passing through airport security or entering a secure building to name a couple examples. Using MRI too has fewer health risks compared to X-ray and avoids the scanners that reveal details under clothing like the controversial backscatter machines.

The problem at this point with MRI for these purposes, according to a press release about the research, is that the machines are large and images currently take a relatively long time to process. Imaging knees also wouldn’t account for those who have had replacement surgery.

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Featured image via Shutterstock.com.

(H/T: Huffington Post)

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 1:29pm
I’m pretty sure Barney’s would be a dead giveaway..

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- TH30PH1LUS
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 2:24pm
  lol
  
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Warphead
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 9:15am
The last, promise.
This story is only about as half as long as it was originally. After the writer submitted it to the editor, the editor, not liking the story, cut the writer off at the knees.

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Warphead
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 8:48am
I thought this was distributed only on a “kneed” to know basis. I certainly feel I didn’t “kneed” to know.

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Warphead
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 8:44am
After reading this I kneed a drink.
Remember.
I only drink, To make you more interesting.

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Warphead
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 8:41am
I had a girlfriend once that said she could recognize me by just my, uh, privates alone. The problem is I found out she could also recognize over half the other men in town & was getting acquainted with the other half. Ouch!
How do you know your having a bad day?
When you take your new girlfriend, the for sure love of your life, home to meet the parents and her and your dad seem to “know” each other.
Your day turns to crap “true story” when your finally flying home from the God Awful week long business training seminar where they were so cheap the fed you only cold sandwiches for lunch. Your plane is approaching your city. You look down and start picking out landmarks. Wow, there’s Hwy 70. Look there’s my street. I can even see my house, wait, who’s pickup is in the driveway? I don’t have a pickup. Well I’ll be Damned!

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Warphead
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 8:27am
I don’t know about knees but I have noticed certain other physical attributes on some women that, though they don’t necessarily cause me to recognize or know them, they do instill a great desire to.

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mcmeador
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 8:11am
I knew it was kneecaps. How? Because you posted a picture of knees right by your mysterious headline.

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bumpkin
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:18pm
So… Now that they can place a RFID into us during surgery, or a nanochip into our meds and have it exist inside us sans our awareness of it, -they still want to consider our knees? Funny thought! Good observation by the doc, tho!

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PurrrpleMtnMajesty
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:32pm
Strange how our voice, our fingerprints, our eyescan, our facial dimensions/proportions, and even our knee caps are so individually unique in design that out of 7 Billion people we can be identified through them, yet we “supposedly” are not the product of intelligent design.

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crackerone
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:05pm
You’d be able to reconize Boehners without a scan. Just look for the rug burns.

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- SaturdaysWarrior76
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:12pm
  Ba-da-Bing! :)
  
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Cosmos102
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:22pm
Knee replacement surgery….anyone?

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Tigress1
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:13pm
Does anyone know how much MRI machines cost? A helluva lot more than X-rays, and they are a helluva lot more expensive to use too, as anyone who has ever had an MRI can tell you. Medical facilities bill insurance companies about $2,000 per scan. This sounds like the beginnings of something else that will cost We the People big $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. Better nip it off in the bud. (hint: NOW!)

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- Tigress1
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:26pm
  Here’s some info. about purchasing a USED MRI machine:
  
  http://info.blockimaging.com/bid/68146/How-Much-Does-a-Used-MRI-Machine-Cost
  
  Here’s another link related to the costs. To save time, scan down to “Economics of MRI”
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_imaging
  
  Not cheap. Some crazy Progressives are dreaming again.
  
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:10pm
The day you need a machine to count every atom in your knee joint, to figure out who you are, is the day, you have all lost your minds? You’ve got to be kidding? Let’s be honest, they want to get an MRI of your skull so they can try to figure out what’s in it? Go away big brother, we got things under control?

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firman
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 6:48pm
Do we really kneed this?

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- BBEV
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 7:02pm
  No Kneed to worry. The police will only use it when kneeded.
  
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- pavepaws
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 7:23pm
  There is no kneed for this type of humor.
  
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Chuck Stein
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 6:45pm
“Deceptive manipulation requires an invasive and complicated medical procedure”
And using knees this way requires an MRI — what was that bit about “invasive and complicated”?

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OlefromMN
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 6:38pm
Well not to brag, but I do have one body part that sets me apart from everybody else…

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- Too_Far_Gone
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 6:46pm
  It’s not your brain that’s for sure ..
  
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- Southernsoul
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 6:51pm
  Ah, don’t be shy. It’s rare, but a lot of guys have Micro Penis Syndrome. Hehe. sorry, too easy.
  
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- OlefromMN
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 7:10pm
  It just proves our minds are always in the gutter. (sorry Too_Far_Gone, it proves that I was thinking a deeper thought) . Playing on the knee joint, why not the knuckle joint? I am sure we all have numerous proprietary identifiers. The commercial usage still will be retina scan, finger and pal print ident, and DNA for more in depth.
  
  And I knew I teed it up for somebody Southernsoul
  
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- Warphead
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 8:56am
  Old Korean proverb applies here.
  He who dance unmindful through minefield not dance anywhere else.
  
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Gourdy
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 6:11pm
Although interesting, what’s the practical point of this when we have DNA testing?

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- Warphead
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 9:04am
  It would have helped immensely getting Bill Clinton impeached. Combined with the blue dress, they probably could have gotten some really good plaster knee impressions from the carpet in the oval office.
  And speaking of Bill Clinton.
  They finally found out why Hillary was getting dizzy and falling.
  The official Toxicology Report indicates:
  Acute cigar poisoning.
  
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AvengerK
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 6:05pm
In the jungle, welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your nuh- nuh- nuh- nuh, nuh- nuh-nuh-nuh knees, knees- W. Axl Rose.

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