Study on the criteria for assessing skull-face correspondence in craniofacial superimposition

Craniofacial superimposition (CFS) [1] is one of the approaches used in craniofacial identification [2,3]. It involves the superimposition of a skull (or a skull model) over a number of ante mortem images of an individual and the analysis of their morphological correspondence. Since the first documented use of CFS for identification purposes [4] the technique has been undergoing continuous improvement. Although the foundations of the CFS method were laid by the end of the nineteenth century [5,6], the associated procedures evolved as new technologies became available.

Source: Legal Medicine - October 2, 2016 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Oscar Ib áñez, Andrea Valsecchi, Fabio Cavalli, María Isabel Huete, Blanca Rosario Campomanes-Alvarez, Carmen Campomanes-Alvarez, Ricardo Vicente, David Navega, Ann Ross, Caroline Wilkinson, Rimantas Jankauskas, Kazuhiko Imaizumi, Rita Hardiman, Paul T Source Type: research