A method for identifying implanted reconstructive prosthetic devices comprising obtaining a digital radiographic image of a prosthetic implant that has been implanted in a person or animal for which the manufacturer and/or model is unknown allowing a user to enter into a computer metadata relating to the implant for use as metadata feature values cleaning up the unknown implant image rotating, flipping and/or scaling the unknown implant image extracting features from the unknown implant image according to one or more feature extraction algorithms and comparing the metadata and extracted feature values for the unknown implant image to feature values for other implant images according to a comparison algorithm to create an overall likelihood score for each of the other implant images.
