A test of four innominate bone age assessment methods in a modern skeletal collection from Medellin, Colombia

Rivera-Sandoval, Javier; Monsalve, Timisay; Cattaneo, Cristina

doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2017.11.003

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“…All of the included 18 studies were conducted between the years 2007 and 2019. The total number of participants in each meta-analysis was: 1104 (n = 5) [21][22][23] for the Spearman's Rho combined males and females, 1516 (n = 6) [24][25][26][27][28][29] for the Pearson's correlation coefficient combined males and females, 1675 (n = 7) [21,[30][31][32][33][34][35] for the Spearman's Rho male-only, 927 28,[36][37][38] for the Pearson's correlation coefficient male-only, 967 (n = 7) [21,[30][31][32][33]35,38] for the Spearman's Rho female-only, 464 (n = 3) [25, 28,37] for the Pearson's correlation coefficient female-only, 398 (n = 9) [21,24,[31][32][33][34][35], for Cohen's kappa interrater reliability, 383 (n = 5) [21,22,32] for the Spearman's Rho interrater reliability, and 300 (n = 3) [36] for the Pearson's correlation coefficient interrater reliability, 754 (n = 11) [27,28,[31][32]…”

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The accuracy and reliability of the Suchey–Brooks pubic symphysis age estimation method: Systematic review and meta‐analysis

Schanandore

Wolden

Smart

2021

Journal of Forensic Sciences

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Suchey–Brooks method has been studied many times with varying reports of accuracy and reliability. A systematic review and meta‐analyses were utilized to quantitatively determine the accuracy and reliability of the Suchey–Brooks (S‐B) method. A systematic search of PubMed and EBSCO health and medical databases was performed. Meta‐analyses were performed to quantify the relationship between actual known age at death and the S‐B method using Spearman's Rho and Pearson's r for (1) combined males and females estimates, (2) male‐only estimates, and (3) female‐only estimates. Overall correlation coefficient using Cohen's kappa, Spearman's Rho, and Pearson's r was also calculated to determine the interrater and intrarater reliability using the S‐B method. Eighteen studies classified as moderate‐to‐high methodological quality met the inclusion criteria. The sample sizes were different for the combined male and female (n = 2620), male‐only (n = 2602), and female‐only (n = 1431) meta‐analyses. The effect size of the age at death meta‐analyses was large and significant for combined males and females (Spearman's Rho = 0.62; Pearson's r = 0.65), male‐only (Spearman's Rho = 0.77; Pearson's r = 0.75), and female‐only (Spearman's Rho = 0.71; Pearson's r = 0.71). The overall correlation coefficients of the interrater (Kappa = 0.76; Spearman's Rho = 0.73; Pearson's r = 0.80) and intrarater (Kappa = 0.81; Spearman's Rho = 0.91; Pearson's r = 0.83) reliability meta‐analyses were large and significant. A significant degree of heterogeneity was present in all meta‐analyses, with minimal evidence of publication bias. The meta‐analyses results suggest the S‐B method is highly reliable with a moderate‐to‐high degree of accuracy. Our results also identified sample size and accuracy differences between male and female individuals.

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The accuracy and reliability of the Suchey–Brooks pubic symphysis age estimation method: Systematic review and meta‐analysis

Schanandore

Wolden

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2021

Journal of Forensic Sciences

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“…The identification of human remains in the Colombian context is possible thanks to the creation of these collections, which led to the emergence of methods and techniques adapted for the local population, highlighting their importance as a forensic and investigative tool [40]. The Colombian identified osteological collections have been extensively studied, resulting in multiple publications that address the problem of the lack of specific standards for this population regarding the estimation of sex [84,85], age at death [86][87][88][89], individual and population variability [90], and the creation of new technologies [42]. Apart from osteological material, the collections also contain additional imaging resources, e.g., lateral cephalometric radiographs [91], skull base radiographs [92], and biographical data on isotropic values [93].…”

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The Identified Osteological Collections of South America and Their Ethical Dimensions

2022

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Recent years have brought an important increase in the interest in identified human osteological collections in South America. Their number has been systematically growing and their sizes have been expanding, allowing the development of the field of forensic anthropology, among other disciplines, in this region. These collections are used mainly for the validation of international forensic anthropology methods for national and local populations, as well as for the training of professionals and researchers. Despite their growth, important limitation related to the lack of variability in the representativeness of individuals within these collections represents a significant drawback. Likewise, their concentration in only a few countries constitutes a noteworthy concern. This article aims at mapping the existing identified human osteological collections in South America, discussing the advances in the area of forensic anthropology that they have allowed, and reflecting upon their ethical dimensions in the South American context.

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“…For the last 20 years, much of the research regarding pelvic-based age-at-death estimation in adults has been based on testing and comparing the accuracy and reliability of the existing methodologies in geographically different documented skeletal collections. Despite that the majority of the research about population-based reliability has been performed in North America (the USA [e.g., [ 17 , 36 , 37 ] and Canada [ 31 ]) and Europe (England [ 33 , 38 , 39 ], Serbia [ 40 ], Poland [ 41 ], Italy [ 42 ], Greece [ 43 – 45 ], Spain [ 46 , 47 ], France [ 48 ], and Portugal [ 49 ]), there have been some uncommon approaches based on samples from Asia (Thailand [ 20 , 50 , 51 ], Japan [ 52 ], China [ 53 ], and India [ 54 ]), South America (Chile [ 55 ] and Colombia [ 21 , 56 ]), and Africa (South Africa [ 57 , 58 ]).…”

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“…Interestingly, most of the publications previously mentioned have included the acetabulum as a unique or part of the age markers within the key research question of the paper. Indeed, the acetabulum has become a focus of aging investigation within the last 10 years [ 18 – 20 , 30 – 34 , 39 , 49 , 57 , 59 – 64 ], increasingly gaining popularity, reliability, and support from the scientific community linked to anthropological issues and lately appearing often along with other traditional age markers [ 17 , 56 , 65 , 66 ]. Nevertheless, no international study has tested the SanMillán-Rissech method, the most up-to-date method of acetabular age estimation, outside Portugal [ 34 ] or the USA [ 18 ] thus far, except for a recent CT approach based on limited acetabular variables and, unlike the original, using principal component analysis and regression models which have achieved good accuracy results in Indian population [ 64 ].…”

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Inter-population differences in acetabular senescence: relevance in age-at-death estimation

San-Millán

Rissech

2023

Int J Legal Med

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Since investigation of the timing of the skeletal traits among the acetabula of different populations is lacking, this study aims to evaluate the relevance of geographical origin in the acetabulum aging process and in the usability of the SanMillán-Rissech aging method. The acetabula of 826 European North Americans derived from the Bass Collection (USA) have been analyzed and compared with 611 Portuguese acetabula from the Luis Lopes Collection (Portugal) applying the most updated acetabular age estimation technique (2017). After evaluating and comparing the acetabular aging rates between both populations by Mann–Whitney U tests, the inaccuracy values (bias and absolute error) were analyzed and compared using population-specific reference samples and using references differing in geographical origin by Wilcoxon tests. In general terms, the North Americans age faster than the Portuguese, especially the females, reaching the consecutive acetabular stages at younger ages. Regarding the SanMillán-Rissech method accuracy, using population-specific reference samples produces, as a general rule, better outcomes. In addition, an exhaustive meta-analysis of inaccuracy values has demonstrated that this method provides better estimation values than pubic symphysis and auricular surfaces regardless of the geographic coherence of the reference sample. These inter-population skeletal differences are derived from different factors than age, highlighting the impact of both biological and social background on age estimation. A thorough analysis of the skeletal age-based timing becomes essential to understanding, deciphering and being able to minimize bias and potential inaccuracy or even counteract them when applying the age estimation methods to different populations.

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A test of four innominate bone age assessment methods in a modern skeletal collection from Medellin, Colombia

Cited by 15 publications

References 47 publications

The accuracy and reliability of the Suchey–Brooks pubic symphysis age estimation method: Systematic review and meta‐analysis

The accuracy and reliability of the Suchey–Brooks pubic symphysis age estimation method: Systematic review and meta‐analysis

The Identified Osteological Collections of South America and Their Ethical Dimensions

Inter-population differences in acetabular senescence: relevance in age-at-death estimation

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