Ali Zabiullah, Cox Christopher, Stock Michala K, Zandee vanRilland Eddy E, Rubio Ana, Fowler David R
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, 900 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21224.
Department of Epidemiology, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21205.
J Forensic Sci. 2018 Sep;63(5):1346-1349. doi: 10.1111/1556-4029.13751. Epub 2018 Feb 21.
Postmortem computed tomography (CT) has been extensively used in the last decade for identification purposes and in various anthropologic studies. Postmortem CT measurements of scapulae, analyzed using logistic discriminant function developed in this study, showed 94.5% accuracy in estimating sex. Data analyzed using the Dabbs and Moore-Jansen (2010) discriminant function and the discriminant function generated in this study provided nearly identical results with disagreement in only one case. Height and weight were not statically significant in sex prediction. The results of this study show that data obtained from volume rendered postmortem CT images can be considered reliable and treated as a practical option to standard anthropological methods, especially in mass fatalities as a rapid triage tool for sex determination.
在过去十年中，尸检计算机断层扫描（CT）已广泛用于身份识别目的和各种人类学研究。使用本研究中开发的逻辑判别函数分析的肩胛骨尸检CT测量结果显示，在估计性别方面的准确率为94.5%。使用达布斯和摩尔 - 詹森（2010）判别函数以及本研究中生成的判别函数分析的数据提供了几乎相同的结果，仅在一个案例中有分歧。身高和体重在性别预测中没有统计学意义。本研究结果表明，从容积再现的尸检CT图像获得的数据可被视为可靠的，并可作为标准人类学方法的一种实用选择，特别是在大规模死亡事件中作为性别确定的快速分类工具。
