Open AccessExfoliative cytology: A possible tool in age estimation in forensic odontology
Author(s) -
Devi Charan Shetty,
Vijay Wadhwan,
Kaveri Surya Khanna,
Abhishek Jain,
Amit Gupta
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of forensic dental sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0975-2137
pISSN - 0975-1475
DOI - 10.4103/0975-1475.150321
Subject(s) - exfoliative cytology , papanicolaou stain , buccal administration , medicine , dentistry , bonferroni correction , image analysis , cytology , pathology , statistics , computer science , mathematics , digital image , cervical cancer , cancer , artificial intelligence , image (mathematics) , image processing
Age determination of unknown human bodies is important in the setting of a crime investigation or a mass disaster because the age at death, birth date, and year of death as well as gender can guide investigators to the correct identity among a large number of possible matches.