Virtual anthropology–a brief review of the literature and history of computed tomography

T Uldin - Forensic sciences research, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Computed tomography (CT) has influenced numerous fields since its inception in the 1970s.
The field of palaeoanthropology significantly benefited from this efficient and non-invasive …

Mapping sexual dimorphism signal in the human cranium

A Del Bove, L Menéndez, G Manzi, J Moggi-Cecchi… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
The study of sexual dimorphism in human crania has important applications in the fields of
human evolution and human osteology. Current, the identification of sex from cranial …

A systematic review of photogrammetry as a reliable methodology in gender identification of human skull

JC da Silva, HB Strazzi-Sahyon, JC Andreo… - Journal of Forensic and …, 2023 - Elsevier
One of the most important parameters in the identification process in forensic Medicine and
Dentistry is the determination of sex through the skull, based on morphological and metric …

Advanced procedures for skull sex estimation using sexually dimorphic morphometric features

A Bertsatos, ME Chovalopoulou, J Brůžek… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
This paper introduces an automated method for estimating sex from cranial sex diagnostic
traits by extracting and evaluating specialized morphometric features from the glabella, the …

Landmark typology in applied morphometrics studies: What's the point?

SKTS Wärmländer, H Garvin… - The Anatomical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Landmarks are the hallmark of biological shape analysis as discrete anatomical points of
correspondence. Various systems have been developed for their classification. In the most …

Sexual dimorphism and regional variation in human frontal bone inclination measured via digital 3D models

A Petaros, HM Garvin, SB Sholts, S Schlager… - Legal Medicine, 2017 - Elsevier
The frontal bone is one of the most sexually dimorphic elements of the human skull, due to
features such as the glabella, frontal eminences, and frontal inclination. While glabella is …

Comparative analysis of four morphometric methods for sex estimation: A study conducted on human skulls

PA Sinhorini, IAP Costa, TT Lopez-Capp… - Legal Medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
The pelvis and skull are the regions of the human skeleton that most clearly show sexual
dimorphism, with the pelvis being superior to the skull for sex estimation owing to …

Sexual dimorphism in frontal bone roundness quantified by a novel 3D-based and landmark-free method

O Bulut, A Petaros, İ Hizliol, SKTS Wärmländer… - Forensic science …, 2016 - Elsevier
In this study we present a novel and landmark-free method for quantifying shape differences
between male and female frontal bones. CT scans were recorded for 80 male and 80 female …

Sexual dimorphism in mastoid process volumes measured from 3D models of dry crania from medieval Croatia

A Petaros, SB Sholts, M Čavka, M Slaus… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
ABSTRACT 3D analysis of skeletal volumes has become an important field in digital
anthropology studies. The volume of the mastoid process has been proposed to display …

Cranial anatomical structures with high sexual dimorphism in metric and morphological evaluation: A systematic review

JC da Silva, HB Strazzi-Sahyon, GP Nunes… - Journal of Forensic and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The mastoid process has attracted the attention of several researchers due to its protected
position at the base of the skull and the fact that it is relatively compact, in addition to being …