Determination of age at death: Assessment of an algorithm of age prediction using numerical three-dimensional CT data from pubic bones

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 261-268

  Pasquier, E ^a   De Saint Martin Pernot, Luc ^a,c   Burdin, V ^b   Mounayer, C ^a   Le Rest, C ^a   Colin, D ^a   Mottier, D ^a   Roux, C ^b   Baccino, E ^a  

^a BREST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Ecl Natl Sup Telecommunication B   (France)

^c SERVICE DE RHUMATOLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

Age estimation; Forensic; Human osteology; Invariant descriptors; Quantification

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE; AGE DETERMINATION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA BASE; DEATH; DECOMPOSITION; HUMAN; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PREDICTION; PUBIC BONE; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; ALGORITHMS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; DEATH; FEMALE; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; PUBIC BONE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0344507092     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199903)108:3<261::AID-AJPA2>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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