title: Frontal sinuses for identification: quality of classifications, possible error and potential corrections.
abstract: Many studies have examined the characteristics of the frontal sinuses and their use for forensic purposes, particularly when an individual is edentulous. One of the most widespread classification systems is that proposed by Yoshino et al. The aim of this study was to improve the performance of Yoshino's method for identifying unknown skeletal remains by replacing the first two morphological items, frontal sinus size and bilateral asymmetry, by SOR1 = left frontal sinus area/left orbit area, and SOR2 = right frontal sinus area/right orbit area. According to the bivariate distribution of SOR = (SOR1, SOR2) and available data, we also estimated the probability of positive misclassification.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy. r.cameriere@unimc.it
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cameriere
authors.forename: Luigi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ferrante
authors.forename: Dora
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mirtella
authors.forename: Franco Ugo
authors.initials: FU
authors.lastname: Rollo
authors.forename: Mariano
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cingolani
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D005260:Female; D018732:Forensic Anthropology / Q000379:methods*; D005626:Frontal Sinus / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D012727:Sex Characteristics