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ArticleForensic science, medicine, and pathology2025

Sex estimation with convolutional neural networks using the patella magnetic resonance image slices.

Nevin Cavlak, Gökalp Çınarer, Mustafa Fatih Erkoç, Kazım Kılıç

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Article in Forensic science, medicine, and pathology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Nevin CavlakDepartment of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Yozgat Bozok University, Yozgat, Türkiye.ORCID 0000-0002-9207-7333
Gökalp ÇınarerDepartment of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering-Architecture, Yozgat Bozok University, Yozgat, 66900, Türkiye. gokalp.cinarer@bozok.edu.tr.ORCID 0000-0003-0818-6746
Mustafa Fatih ErkoçDepartment of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Yozgat Bozok University, Yozgat, Türkiye.ORCID 0000-0002-6266-5177
Kazım KılıçDepartment of Computer Technologies, Yozgat Vocational School, Yozgat Bozok University, Yozgat, Türkiye.ORCID 0000-0003-2168-1338

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Conducting sex estimation based on bones through morphometric methods increases the need for automatic image analyses, as doing so requires experienced staff and is a time-consuming process. In this study, sex estimation was performed with the EfficientNetB3, MobileNetV2, Visual Geometry Group 16 (VGG16), ResNet50, and DenseNet121 architectures on patellar magnetic resonance images via a developed model. Within the scope of the study, 6710 magnetic resonance sagittal patella image slices of 696 patients (293 males and 403 females) were obtained. The performance of artificial intelligence algorithms was examined through deep learning architectures and the developed classification model. Considering the performance evaluation criteria, the best accuracy result of 88.88% was obtained with the ResNet50 model. In addition, the proposed model was among the best-performing models with an accuracy of 85.70%. When all these results were examined, it was concluded that positive sex estimation results could be obtained from patella magnetic resonance image (MRI) slices without the use of the morphometric method.

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Deep LearningMagnetic Resonance ImagingNeural Networks, ComputerPatellaSex Determination by SkeletonAdolescentAdultAgedAlgorithmsConvolutional Neural NetworksFemaleHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMaleMiddle AgedYoung AdultConvolutional neural networksDeep learningForensic anthropologyPatellaSex estimation

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PMID39969760
PMCPMC12325482

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