Skeletal maturity is a reliable indicator of growth and skeletal bone age assessment (BAA) is used in the management and diagnosis of endocrine disorders. Bone age can be estimated from the left-hand wrist radiograph of the subject. The work presented in this paper proposes the development of an efficient technique for segmentation of hand-wrist radiographs and identifying the bones specially u...

BACKGROUND We aimed to determine specific formulae by which we are able to estimate the body stature from the length of ulna and tibia calculated from the X-rays in order to be a reference for skeletal remains-based identification in Iranian population. METHODS The length of right ulna and tibia of 49 male and 52 female adults, who were anatomically healthy, were measured on the antero-poster...

Estimation of sex when investigating subadult skeletal remains is largely problematic because of unreliable and inaccurate results. Despite the limitations encountered with skeletal material, the medical literature clearly demonstrates differences between males and females in utero that persist through life. The current study investigates sexual dimorphism in the long bones of the humerus and f...

The estimation of biological sex is paramount significance for the identification anonymous skeletal remains in contemporary medico-legal contexts or bioarcheological studies past societies. Sex techniques are usually affected by population-specific sexual dimorphism. As such, need distinctive standards each population has long been acknowledged. This paper aims to document and critically addre...

background: skeletal anomalies rate are increasing, especially among young people. the aim of this study was to investigate skeletal anomalies among male and female students in the middle school of the bayangan region kermanshah iran.  methods: 260 students from guidance schools in bayangan region (120 girls and 140 boys) participated in this study. using posture screen and new york test the sk...

Estimation of age at death is an essential part of reconstructing information from skeletal material. The aim of the investigation was to reconstruct the chronological age of an archaeological sample from Croatia using cranial skeletal remains as well as to make an evaluation of the methods used for age estimation. For this purpose, four age calculation methods were used: palatal suture closure...

Sex estimation is an important aspect of skeletal identification. In addition, previous studies have found that the sex each race different. Thus, it necessary to develop discriminant function equations for Thai population. This study aims investigate relationship between width, length and height calcaneus talus with regards compare effectiveness alone, both talus. A total 200 individuals (100 ...

Body mass is a key biological variable, but difficult to assess from fossils. Various techniques exist for estimating body mass from skeletal parameters, but few studies have compared outputs from different methods. Here, we apply several mass estimation methods to an exceptionally complete skeleton of the dinosaur Stegosaurus. Applying a volumetric convex-hulling technique to a digital model o...

Forensic anthropologists are routinely asked to estimate a biological profile (i.e., age, sex, ancestry and stature) from a set of unidentified remains. In contrast to the abundance of collections and techniques associated with adult skeletons, there is a paucity of modern, documented subadult skeletal material, which limits the creation and validation of appropriate forensic standards. Many ar...

BACKGROUND Tissue Velocity Imaging (TVI) is an ultrasound based technique used for quantitative analysis of the cardiac function and has earlier been evaluated according to myocardial velocities. Recent years several studies have reported applying TVI in the analysis of skeletal muscles. Skeletal tissue velocities can be very low. In particular, when performing isometric contractions or contrac...