Estimation of stature and body weight in Slovak adults using static footprints: A preliminary study

The body height and body weight are the basic characteristics often used to describe another person and they are part of a biological profile. Together with the sex and age, if estimated correctly, may aid a personal identification. Multiple publications exploring mainly the stature estimation from a dimension of the various body parts can be found, among which the lower extremities show high correlations [1,2,3].

Source: Legal Medicine - July 25, 2018 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Zuzana Caplova, Petra Švábová, Mária Fuchsová, Soňa Masnicová, Eva Neščáková, Silvia Bodoriková, Michaela Dörnhöferová, Radoslav Beňuš Source Type: research