Data mining for sex estimation based on cranial measurements.

The aim of the present study is to develop effective and understandable classification models for sex estimation and to identify the most dimorphic linear measurements in adult crania by means of data mining techniques. Furthermore, machine learning models and models developed through logistic regre...

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Publicado en:Forensic Science International Vol. 315
Autores principales: Toneva, Diana H., Nikolova, Silviya Y., Agre, Gennady P., Zlatareva, Dora K., Hadjidekov, Vassil G., Lazarov, Nikolai E.
Formato: Journal Article
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. Oct2020
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          Toneva, Diana H.
          Nikolova, Silviya Y.
          Agre, Gennady P.
          Zlatareva, Dora K.
          Hadjidekov, Vassil G.
          Lazarov, Nikolai E.
        affil: Department of Anthropology and Anatomy, Institute of Experimental Morphology, Pathology and Anthropology with Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113, Sofia, Bulgaria
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          Data Mining Methods
          Algorithms
          Diagnosis, Laboratory Methods
          Tomography, X-Ray Computed
          Skull
          Aged, 80 and Over
          Aged
          Decision Trees
          Middle Age
          Skull Anatomy and Histology
          Body Regions
          Forensic Anthropology
          Adult
          Adolescence
          Cephalometry
          Logistic Regression
          Young Adult
          Imaging, Three-Dimensional
          Aged, 80 & over
          Aged: 65+ years
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
      ab: The aim of the present study is to develop effective and understandable classification models for sex estimation and to identify the most dimorphic linear measurements in adult crania by means of data mining techniques. Furthermore, machine learning models and models developed through logistic regression analysis are compared in terms of performance. Computed tomography scans of 393 adult individuals were used in the study. A landmark-based approach was applied to collect the metric data. The three-dimensional coordinates of 47 landmarks were acquired and used for calculation of linear measurements. Two datasets of cranial measurements were assembled, including 37standard measurements and 1081 interlandmark distances, respectively. Three data mining algorithms were applied: the rule induction algorithms JRIP and Ridor, and the decision tree algorithm J48. Two advanced attribute selection methods (Weka BestFirst and Weka GeneticSearch) were also used. The best accuracy result (91.9 %) was achieved by a set of rules learnt by the JRIP algorithm from the dataset constructed by application of the GeneticSearch selection algorithm to the dataset of standard cranial measurements. The set consisted of five rules including seven cranial measurements. Its accuracy was even better than the classification rates achieved by the logistic regression models. Concerning the second dataset of nonstandard measurements, the best accuracy (88.3 %) was obtained by using classification models learnt by two algorithms - JRIP with a dataset preprocessed by the BestFirst selection algorithm and Ridor with preprocessing by the GeneticSearch selection algorithm. Our experiments show that for the two datasets mentioned above the rule-based models contain smaller sets of rules with shorter lists of measurements and achieve better classification accuracy results in comparison with decision tree-based models.
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