Gender Identification in Digital X-ray Images of Femur Bone

The digital X-ray images carry huge amount of information about various diseases from which the patient is suffering. The recent studies are concerned about medico-legal factors. In this paper, we have proposed a technique of gender identification from the digital X-ray images of femur bone. The images are captured at a distance of 135-centimeters and the machine zooming was maintained uniformly for all the images. The experimental results indicate that male femoral angel is above 1360 and below 1430, whereas female femoral angle is above 1410 and below 1460, from which the differentiation of male and female can be done.