Intuitive presentation of clinical forensic data using anonymous and person-specific 3D reference manikins

Martin Urschler*, Johannes Höller, Alexander Bornik, Tobias Paul, Michael Giretzlehner, Horst Bischof, Kathrin Yen, Eva Scheurer, Peter Kontschieder

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Abstract

The increasing use of CT/MR devices in forensic analysis motivates the need to present forensic findings from different sources in an intuitive reference visualization, with the aim of combining 3D volumetric images along with digital photographs of external findings into a 3D computer graphics model. This model allows a comprehensive presentation of forensic findings in court and enables comparative evaluation studies correlating data sources.

The goal of this work was to investigate different methods to generate anonymous and patient-specific 3D models which may be used as reference visualizations. The issue of registering 3D volumetric as well as 2D photographic data to such 3D models is addressed to provide an intuitive context for injury documentation from arbitrary modalities. We present an image processing and visualization work-flow, discuss the major parts of this work-flow, compare the different investigated reference models, and show a number of cases studies that underline the suitability of the proposed work-flow for presenting forensically relevant information in 3D visualizations.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)155-166
JournalForensic Science International
Volume241
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014

Fields of Expertise

  • Information, Communication & Computing

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