New Means to Identify Disaster Victims CHICAGO, IL (wqub) - Identifying the dead after a mass disaster may become a little easier. That's according to a new study released today in Chicago at a meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.

A team of Japanese scientists created an automated system that compares dental x-rays to the remains of the deceased.

Study co-author Eiko (aye-KO) Kosuge (ku-sue-GEY) says her research was influenced by a plane crash that took place when she was a kid.

"Her father was working for identifying victims and it looks painful. And then she wanted to make it short and make it quicker to find victims."

Kosuge (ku-sue-GEY) says this new method can reduce the workload of forensic experts by 95 percent.

The system is limited to cases in which the identities of the victims are already known ... such as plane crashes.

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