July 20, 2017
      
                  
        
  Author(s)
  Haiying  Guan,   Paul Y. Lee,   Curtis L. Lamp,   Andrew  Dienstfrey,   Mary Frances  Theofanos,   Brian  Stanton,   Matthew  Schwarz
 
       
            
    
    
        Latent fingerprints obtained from crime scenes are rarely immediately suitable for identification purposes. Instead, most latent fingerprint images must be preprocessed to enhance the fingerprint information held within the digital image, while suppressing