A Multi-Modality Computer-Aided Framework Towards Postmortem Identification

Abstract

A multi-modality framework for forensic soft-facial reconstruction based on computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is presented. CT is used to acquire a virtual representation of a skull find and MRI templates provide the desired soft-tissue information to produce a facial likeness of a deceased individual. Two main strategies are described. The first is based on a regularized non-linear warping technique using radial basis functions known as thin-plate splines in 3D space. The second is an automatic segmentation scheme based on active contours, which will provide a facial template that can be morphed onto the CT of the skull find. These approaches are presented in the framework of forensic workplace.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 13 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.