Sex Estimation from the Pelvis Using Radiological Methods: Turkish Sample

Sex estimation from skeletal remains is an important issue in both forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology. The chances of achieving a high degree of accuracy in relation to the sex estimation is related to the degree of reliability of the techniques used to define the shape and size differences between the analyzed skeletal components and sexes. Currently pelvis is considered to be the most reliable sex indicator as it is the most sexually dimorphic element both morphologically and metrically, particularly in adult subjects. In addition to this computerized tomography (CT) is recognized as a successful method in identification studies, and its use in the development of population-specific reference databases has increased in recent years. The data of this study is consisted of five metric measurements taken from 3-dimensional pelvic images constructed from computed tomography images of 50 pelvic bones. The aim of this study is to develop population specific sex estimation standards by using pelvic bones for Turkish population