One of the most convenient biometrics approaches for identifying a person is dorsal hand veins recognition. In recent years, the dorsal hand veins have acquired increasing attention because of its characteristics such as universal, unique, permanent, contactless, and difficulty of forging, also, the veins remain unchanged when a human being grows. The captured dorsal hand veins image suffers from the many differences in lighting conditions, brightness, existing hair, and amount of noise. To

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... e these problems, this paper aims to extract and recognize dorsal hand veins based on the largest correlation coefficient. The proposed system consists of three stages: 1) preprocessing the image, 2) feature extraction, and 3) matching. In order to evaluate the proposed system performance, two databases have been employed. The test results illustrate the correct recognition rate (CRR), and accuracy of the first database are 99.38% and 99.46%, respectively, whereas the CRR, and accuracy of the second database are 99.11% and 99.07% respectively. As a result, we conclude that our proposed method for recognizing dorsal hand veins is feasible and effective.