Sex identification and software development using digital femoral head radiographs

Forensic Science International

Volumn 189, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 113.e1-113.e7

  Kranioti, Elena F ^a   Vorniotakis, Nikolaos ^b   Galiatsou, Christianna ^b   Işcan, Mehmet Y ^c   Michalodimitrakis, Manolis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Digital radiographs; Femur; Forensic anthropology; Java; Sex determination; SIS software

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMUR EPIPHYSIS; FEMUR HEAD; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GREECE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; OSTEOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RELIABILITY; SEX DETERMINATION;

AGED; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMUR HEAD; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEX DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; SOFTWARE;

EID: 67349095031     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2009.04.014     Document Type: Article

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