Data Reconstruction and Visualization Techniques for Forensic Pathology

Ehlert, Alexander; Salah, Zein; Bartz, Dirk

Data Reconstruction and Visualization Techniques for Forensic Pathology

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Date

2006

Authors

Ehlert, Alexander
Salah, Zein
Bartz, Dirk

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

Forensic pathology is largely concerned with the determination of the cause and manner of deaths after accidents, or other circumstances in criminal investigations. A major task in that process is the documentation of surface injuries, which is traditionally done by drawing sketches, photography, or more recently by photogrammetry to generate a three-dimensional digital lesion cartography of the body surface. In this paper, we describe a semi-automatic processing pipeline how data from 3D photogrammetry is combined and used to generate a visual surface representation of accident victims. In that course, a number of steps are performed to provide a high-quality interactive, point-based visualization of the acquired data, which can be used in a more routine way than previous forensic surface methods.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/323-330
,
booktitle = {EUROVIS - Eurographics /IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization
},
editor = {Beatriz Sousa Santos and Thomas Ertl and Ken Joy
},
title = {{Data Reconstruction and Visualization Techniques for Forensic Pathology
}},
author = {Ehlert, Alexander and 
Salah, Zein and 
Bartz, Dirk
},
year = {2006
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-5296
},
ISBN = {3-905673-31-2
},
DOI = {/10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/323-330
}
}