Human identification study by means of frontal sinus imaginological aspects

Soares, Caio Belém Rodrigues Barros; Almeida, Manuella Santos Carneiro; Lopes, Patrícia de Medeiros Loureiro; Beltrão, Ricardo Villar; Pontual, Andréa dos Anjos; Ramos‐Perez, Flávia Maria de Moraes; Figueroa, José; Pontual, Maria Luíza dos Anjos

doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2016.03.030

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“…Regarding the type of image exam selected, it was verified that more than half of the studies used PA (posteroanterior) radiography. [14][15][16][17]19,20,22,[26][27][28][29][30] Thus, it was noted that conventional extraoral radiography is still the most viable and most used in the research, also emphasizing the increasing use, but still at a smaller scale, of threedimensional imaging resources, such as concomitant computed tomography. 10,13,18 In relation to the methodologies and identification parameters of the frontal sinus, the largest number of analyzes used both quantitative and morphological parameters.…”

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“…As for tomographic reconstructions, in 2007 Tatlisumak 12 developed a methodology that was subsequently used in different studies and populations for human identification with a high degree of agreement and acceptance, using qualitative and quantitative parameters. This methodology is known as the FSS System, 4,12,18,27 this method uses a range of twelve standardized parameters: presence of the frontal and left frontal sinuses, central frontal sinus, presence and type of interosseous septum, type of deviation within the transverse septum, number of incomplete and complete intra-septae within the right and left frontal sinus, the number of scaling (curved cuts) of the right and left frontal sinus. Such standardization facilitates the collection and transfer of data so that this methodology has been tested and improved in different populations.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In 2016, Soares et al 27 analyzed the results obtained from radiographic and tomographic images and found a greater concordance in the tomographic data in relation to the quantitative parameters. However, in both the imaging modalities, reliability, and reproducibility were satisfactory.…”

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Imaginological exams of the frontal sinus in human identification

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Souza

Visconti

2019

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Palavras-chave: Seio Frontal. Radiologia Forense. Odontologia Legal. Identificação Humana RESUMO Introdução: A identificação humana é o processo pelo qual se estabelece a identidade de um indivíduo por meio da comparação entre dados registrados em momentos diferentes. Tratando-se do crânio humano, as regiões mais utilizadas na individualização do mesmo são as áreas da sela túrcica, no osso esfenoide, as células mastoides e o seio frontal. Objetivo: O presente trabalho teve como objetivo, através de uma revista da literatura, identificar e descrever as principais técnicas desenvolvidas para a identificação humana, a partir de exames de imagens dos seios frontais, em virtude da contribuição em potencial da radiologia odontológica nesse contexto. Fonte de dados: Para isso, foi realizada uma busca bibliográfica, no PUBMED, a partir do uso das seguintes terminologias: frontal sinus, radiology e forensic. Foram incluídos os artigos publicados entre 2007 e 2017 e excluídos artigos de revisão de literatura, cartas e relatos de caso. Síntese dos dados: Em um total de vinte e três artigos selecionados analisou-se a amostra quanto à nacionalidade, homogeneidade, sexo e faixa etária dos indivíduos, além dos tipos de exames de imagem que constituíram essa amostra, seja de origem radiográfica ou tomográfica, e suas diferentes projeções e modalidades. Além disso, classificou-se a literatura quanto às diferentes técnicas e parâmetros empregados para a identificação, sejam eles quantitativos ou morfológicos. Conclusão: Através desta busca, conclui-se que o perfil da pesquisa científica mundial, voltada para a identificação humana através de exames de imagem dos seios frontais, utiliza amostras homogêneas, de ambos os sexos e ampla faixa etária, empregando-se majoritariamente a Radiografia Extra-oral Póstero-Anterior e parâmetros qualitativos e quantitativos para a identificação.

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Imaginological exams of the frontal sinus in human identification

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2019

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“…Being an internal skull structure between the plates of the frontal bone, the FS is well protected from injuries and taphonomic processes. Thus, due to its uniqueness, relatively constant morphology, protected location and frequent radiological documentation, the FS is particularly useful for the identification of human remains [48][49][50][51][52]. The FS has also been used as a feature for sex prediction [53].…”

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Relation between Metopic Suture Persistence and Frontal Sinus Development

Nikolova¹,

Toneva²,

Georgiev³

et al. 2019

Challenging Issues on Paranasal Sinuses

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The frontal bone develops as two halves, which further unite in a single bone by the closure of the mid-sagittal metopic suture, typically by the end of the first postnatal year. The frontal sinus begins to expand into the orbital and vertical plates of the frontal bone postnatally and reaches the level of the nasion by the fourth year of age. At this time, the metopic suture is usually entirely closed. However, in the cases of failed closure of the metopic suture, its relationship to the frontal sinus development is still obscure. Here, we review the relevant literature and discuss the frontal bone development and maturation, from the viewpoint of the frontal sinus pneumatization in relation to the metopic craniosynostosis and failed closure of the metopic suture. The peculiar to the metopic skulls frontal bone configuration is rather an expression of the underlying neural mass demands than a consequence of the metopic suture persistence. Furthermore, the persistent metopic suture is frequently associated with a frontal sinus underdevelopment. It seems that the metopic suture does not inhibit the frontal sinus pneumatization itself, but rather both traits are an expression or an aftereffect of a certain condition during the early development.

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“…In 2015, Soares et al [11] performed a study to evaluate the applicability of human identification parameters, established by Tatlisumak et al [3], using cone-beam computed tomography tridimensional reconstruction and extraoral radiographs of the frontal sinus. They concluded that, despite some advantages of using X-ray, such as the low costs, comparison of radiographic images has limitations because it is a subjective test that depends on the expert's experience and the radiographic image can vary significantly according to the incidence of the X-ray beam.…”

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Automatic frontal sinus recognition in computed tomography images for person identification

Souza

Marana

Weber

2018

Forensic Science International

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In many cases of person identification the use of biometric features obtained from the hard tissues of the human body, such as teeth and bones, may be the only option. This paper presents a new method of person identification based on frontal sinus features, extracted from computed tomography (CT) images of the skull. In this method, the frontal sinus is automatically segmented in the CT image using an algorithm developed in this work. Next, shape features are extracted from both hemispheres of the segmented frontal sinus by using BAS (Beam Angle Statistics) method. Finally, L distance is used in order to recognize the frontal sinus and identify the person. The novel frontal sinus recognition method obtained 77.25% of identification accuracy when applied on a dataset composed of 310 CT images obtained from 31 people, and the automatic frontal sinus segmentation in CT images obtained a mean Cohen Kappa coefficient equal to 0.8852 when compared to the ground truth (manual segmentation).

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Human identification study by means of frontal sinus imaginological aspects

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Imaginological exams of the frontal sinus in human identification

Imaginological exams of the frontal sinus in human identification

Relation between Metopic Suture Persistence and Frontal Sinus Development

Automatic frontal sinus recognition in computed tomography images for person identification

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