Tecnologie avanzate in antropologia forense: elaborazione in tempo reale di immagini radiografiche nell’identificazione personale di resti scheletrici

Personal identification by comparing radiographs taken when the person was alive and radiographic patterns found out on the cadaver is a procedure based not on stressing generic correspondences but on precise correspondences between the examined images. For this aim a radiographic image processing may be useful; therefore we used an analogue processor V.A.U. 101 (video Assistance Unit - Metamorphosis s.r.. Bari). In the referred case it was necessary to compare a radiography of coxo-femoral articulations taken on a person alive who had suffered a traumatic hip displacement, with osseous alteration pointed out the level of the femoral head sn in a cadaver partially skeletonized and not recognizable of a person killed for shorts at the head The photograph processing, by opportune functions, allowed to point the morphology of osseous fragments and to show the correspondence with the shape assumed by the femoral head, even if some ten years passed from the traumatic event and the death of the person. The obtained result shows the undoubtful utility of the radiographic images processing in the field of personal identification of skeletal remains.