Standardized medical image registration for radiological identification of decedents based on paranasal sinuses.

J Forensic Leg Med

Department of Forensic Medicine and Imaging, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190/52, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.

Published: February 2018

Image registration software is frequently used in clinical radiology, e.g., for follow-up diagnosis. To a certain extent, the radiological identification of decedents (RadID) is comparable to a clinical follow-up diagnosis, in that two datasets from different dates are compared in terms of their anatomical characteristics (e.g., paranasal sinuses) or surgical implants. Due to the increasing use of computed tomography (CT) for head examinations in clinical radiology and the increased use of postmortem CT (PMCT) in forensic imaging, the comparison of three-dimensional (3D) clinical CT (termed as antemortem CT (AMCT) in this article) and PMCT datasets for RadID is becoming increasingly practical. In particular, the comparison of paranasal sinuses in AMCT and PMCT imaging is considered a suitable and reliable modality for RadID. However, previous publications regarding RadID based on comparisons of 3D datasets have not considered the implementation of image registration to provide software-side support for RadID. This article demonstrates and evaluates the use of a standard medical image registration procedure for RadID by comparing paranasal sinuses.

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