TY - GEN
T1 - Detection of sexual dimorphism in the human neurocranium at local scale
AU - Bove, Antonietta Del
AU - Profico, Antonio
AU - Lorenzo, Carlos
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - In physical anthropology sexual dimorphism refers to the morphological differences observed in female and male individuals belonging to the same species. In the human cranium a number of anatomical traits are known to be sexual dimorphic. In this work, we present a geometric morphometric approach to automatically detect the most sexual dimorphic on skeletal collections. We applied the workflow on the human neurocranium and we defined, without an a priori definition of modules, which portions are most sexually dimorphic. We used a large sample of sex-known human 3D skulls to analyse the rate of sexual dimorphism found in the human neurocranium. We applied the Procrustes ANOVA on the best dimorphic patch found using the proposed workflow. We calculated the accuracy in discriminating sex in a sex-known sample by using our proposed model and the traditional approach.
AB - In physical anthropology sexual dimorphism refers to the morphological differences observed in female and male individuals belonging to the same species. In the human cranium a number of anatomical traits are known to be sexual dimorphic. In this work, we present a geometric morphometric approach to automatically detect the most sexual dimorphic on skeletal collections. We applied the workflow on the human neurocranium and we defined, without an a priori definition of modules, which portions are most sexually dimorphic. We used a large sample of sex-known human 3D skulls to analyse the rate of sexual dimorphism found in the human neurocranium. We applied the Procrustes ANOVA on the best dimorphic patch found using the proposed workflow. We calculated the accuracy in discriminating sex in a sex-known sample by using our proposed model and the traditional approach.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85080038685
T3 - 2019 IMEKO TC4 International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, MetroArchaeo 2019
SP - 571
EP - 575
BT - 2019 IMEKO TC4 International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, MetroArchaeo 2019
PB - IMEKO-International Measurement Federation Secretariat
T2 - 2019 IMEKO TC4 International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, MetroArchaeo 2019
Y2 - 4 December 2019 through 6 December 2019
ER -