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ArticleComputational and mathematical methods in medicine2013

Automatic sex determination of skulls based on a statistical shape model.

Li Luo, Mengyang Wang, Yun Tian, Fuqing Duan, Zhongke Wu, Mingquan Zhou, Yves Rozenholc

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Article in Computational and mathematical methods in medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Li LuoCollege of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
Mengyang Wang
Yun Tian
Fuqing Duan
Zhongke Wu
Mingquan Zhou
Yves Rozenholc
Beijing Normal University · CNDélégation Paris 5 · FR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sex determination from skeletons is an important research subject in forensic medicine. Previous skeletal sex assessments are through subjective visual analysis by anthropologists or metric analysis of sexually dimorphic features. In this work, we present an automatic sex determination method for 3D digital skulls, in which a statistical shape model for skulls is constructed, which projects the high-dimensional skull data into a low-dimensional shape space, and Fisher discriminant analysis is used to classify skulls in the shape space. This method combines the advantages of metrical and morphological methods. It is easy to use without professional qualification and tedious manual measurement. With a group of Chinese skulls including 127 males and 81 females, we choose 92 males and 58 females to establish the discriminant model and validate the model with the other skulls. The correct rate is 95.7% and 91.4% for females and males, respectively. Leave-one-out test also shows that the method has a high accuracy.

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AdultAgedAsian PeopleChinaFemaleForensic AnthropologyHumansImaging, Three-DimensionalMaleMiddle AgedModels, AnatomicModels, StatisticalSex Determination by SkeletonSkullTomography, X-Ray ComputedYoung Adult

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PMID24312134
PMCPMC3838841
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