Determination of legal majority age from 3D magnetic resonance images of the radius bone

Darko Stern; Thomas Ebner; Horst Bischof; Martin Urschler

doi:10.1109/ISBI.2014.6868071

Determination of legal majority age from 3D magnetic resonance images of the radius bone

Darko Stern, Thomas Ebner, Horst Bischof, Martin Urschler

Institute of Computer Graphics and Vision (7100)

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Abstract

The determination of an individual's legal majority age is becoming increasingly important in forensic practice. Established age estimation methods are based on 2D X-rays, but suffer from problems due to projective imaging and exposure to ionizing radiation, which, without proper medical or criminal indication, is ethically questionable and legally prohibited in many countries. We propose an automatic 3D method for the determination of legal maturity from MR images based on the ossification of the radius bone. Age estimation is performed by a linear regression model of the epiphyseal gap volume over the known ground truth age of training data. Results are comparable with the established Greulich/Pyle (GP) and Tanner/Whitehouse (TW) methods, but do not involve harmful radiation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IEEE 11th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	1119 - 1122
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2014.6868071
Publication status	Published - 2014

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YOUTH - Adolescent Age Estimation from Magnetic Resonance Images
Urschler, M. & Bischof, H.
1/05/13 → 30/04/15
Project: Research project
Klinisch-Forensische Bildgebung - Developing methods to standardize computer-assisted medical MRI datas [Original in Deutsch: Klinisch-Forensische Bildgebung] - Standard_MRT
Urschler, M., Bornik, A. & Bischof, H.
1/12/08 → 31/05/15
Project: Research project

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Determination of legal majority age from 3D magnetic resonance images of the radius bone. / Stern, Darko; Ebner, Thomas; Bischof, Horst et al.
IEEE 11th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2014. p. 1119 - 1122.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review

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Determination of legal majority age from 3D magnetic resonance images of the radius bone

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