In addition to the pelvis, cranium and phalanges, the sternum is also used for postmortem sex identification. Bone measurements may be obtained on cadaveric bones. Alternatively, computerized tomography may be used to obtain measurements close to the...
Journal of forensic and legal medicine
Jan 4, 2019
A deep learning artificial neural network was adapted to the task of sex determination of skeletal remains. The neural network was trained on images of 900 skulls virtually reconstructed from hospital CT scans. When tested on previously unseen images...
Computational and mathematical methods in medicine
Jun 25, 2018
In law enforcement investigation cases, sex determination from skull morphology is one of the important steps in establishing the identity of an individual from unidentified human skeleton. To our knowledge, existing studies of sex determination of t...
Journal of forensic and legal medicine
Aug 24, 2017
The assessment of sex is of paramount importance in the establishment of the biological profile of a skeletal individual. Femoral relevance for sex estimation is indisputable, particularly when other exceedingly dimorphic skeletal regions are missing...
International journal of legal medicine
Aug 29, 2016
Sex determination on skeletal remains is one of the most important diagnosis in forensic cases and in demographic studies on ancient populations. Our purpose is to realize an automatic operator-independent method to determine the sex from the bone sh...
The measurement of the femoral head is usually considered an interesting variable for the sex determination of skeletal remains. To date, there are few published reference measurements of the femoral head in a modern European population for the purpo...
International journal of legal medicine
Sep 4, 2014
Sex estimation is extremely important in the analysis of human remains as many of the subsequent biological parameters are sex specific (e.g., age at death, stature, and ancestry). When dealing with incomplete or fragmented remains, metric analysis o...
Anthropologischer Anzeiger; Bericht uber die biologisch-anthropologische Literatur
Nov 28, 2025
Prediction of sex is among important topics of forensic medicine and forensic anthropology. In studies conducted for sex prediction, pelvis and cranium bones are the most preferred bones. In cases when it is difficult to examine the pelvis and craniu...
Anthropologischer Anzeiger; Bericht uber die biologisch-anthropologische Literatur
Aug 14, 2025
This research aimed to compare the classification accuracy of three machine learning (ML) methods (random forest (RF), support vector machines (SVM), linear discriminant analysis (LDA)) for sex estimation of sub-adults using cranial computed tomograp...
Sex estimation is an indispensable test for identifying skeletal remains in the field of forensic anthropology. We developed a novel sex-estimation method for skulls and several parts of the skull using machine learning. A total of 240 skull shapes w...
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