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Best Practice Recommendation for Age Estimation in Forensic Anthropology
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Comparison of automated and manual DNA differential extraction in mock vaginal sexual...
Differential extraction is a core forensic DNA technique separating sperm cells from epithelial cells in sexual assault evidence, facilitating recovery of male DNA profiles from mixed biological samples. Effective physical separation reduces the occurrence of mixed DNA profiles, ...
Forensic characterization of transparent traces: A spectroscopic and chemometric approach...
Clear or unpigmented lip gloss, in particular, has become quite popular among people of all genders. Their unpigmented characteristics make them less noticeable at the crime scene; thus, they are less likely to be intentionally removed by the perpetrators. Therefore, in the prese...
Enhancing PRNU‐based camera identification by denoising filters and similarity metrics
Source camera identification through photo response nonuniformity (PRNU) analysis is a well‐established forensic technique, yet the choice of experimental conditions and parameters of the algorithms critically impacts identification reliability. For the first time, this study sys...
New PMCT multi‐indicator ossification standards for age estimation of the knee in modern...
Skeletal age estimation is crucial to medicolegal work, aiding subadult identification, and living age assessments in legal contexts. This study aims to document the ontogeny of knee skeletal indicators on post‐mortem computed tomography (PMCT), and quantify interpopulation varia...
Noncoronary sinus of Valsalva aneurysm with rupture into the right atrium
Sinus of Valsalva aneurysm (SVA) is a rare cardiac anomaly, with autopsy‐confirmed fatal cases remaining uncommon. This report presents a rare case of sudden death in a 13‐year‐old male adolescent caused by rupture of a noncoronary SVA into the right atrium, resulting in acute ci...
Explainable copy‐move forgery detection in videos: Generative adversarial network‐based...
With the nascent reliance on unmanned aerial systems as a means of surveillance, security, and monitoring, it is essential to ensure that video data legitimacy is assured. Object‐based Copy‐Move Forgery (CMF), in which an object is either copied or moved in the frame or across a ...
Suicides disguised as homicides through weapon concealment: A two‐way copycat phenomenon...
Suicides disguised as homicides present a persistent challenge in forensic case analysis, particularly when the weapon is deliberately removed after discharge. This study investigates the evolution of weapon concealment techniques — specifically the "load‐and‐rope" an...
EMBNet: Multi‐scale feature learning with efficient channel attention for deepfake speech...
With the rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence, deepfake speech has emerged as a significant threat to digital audio authenticity, posing challenges for forensic analysis and legal applications. In this study, we propose EMBNet, a task‐oriented deepfake speech d...
Honey bee sting deaths at medicolegal autopsy: A case series demonstrating variable...
Bee sting deaths represent an uncommon but important forensic problem because death may follow either anaphylaxis after only a few stings or toxic envenomation after massive attacks, while autopsy findings may be subtle and nonspecific. We present three fatal medicolegal autopsy ...
Thermal persistence and physicochemical modification of inorganic gunshot residue (IGSR)
In the medicolegal context, GSR analysis plays a key role in clarifying the dynamics of firearm‐related deaths, including lesion identification and firing distance determination. However, postmortem alterations of the body, such as thermal exposure, may influence the analysis of ...
Forensic psychiatric evaluation of legal capacity in older adults: Clinical and cognitive...
Forensic psychiatric evaluation of capacity is commonly requested in clinical practice, particularly in relation to financial decision‐making and power of attorney. However, empirical data describing real‐world assessment processes and associated clinical factors remain limited. ...
Suicide by ligature‐strangulation with 24 rubber bands in a bathtub and self‐inflicted...
A 29‐year‐old man was found dead in a bathtub with 24 rubber bands tightly encircling his neck and two hemorrhagic wounds on his forearm. A forensic autopsy and a whole‐body computed tomography (CT) were performed, but they did not allow the authors to determine whether the cause...
3D‐printed wound channels
Although soft tissue simulants are widely used in ballistic research, glycerine soap is the only material that offers a clear view of the temporary cavity of a wound channel without the use of optical apparatus. However, the latter still shows some inconvenience mostly on its wei...
Unified frequency and graph learning framework for accurate and robust copy‐move image...
Copy‐move forgery (CMF) is one of the most prominent challenges to be addressed by digital image forensics experts today due to the ease with which forged objects can be copied and placed within the same image to conceal or replicate objects. The conventional approaches to detect...
Identification of controlled and non‐controlled substances by forensic laboratories:...
Forensic laboratories analyze seized drug evidence using analytical schemes designed to ensure reliable identification results; however, there is little empirical evidence on how these schemes perform when applied to complex samples and how reporting practices influence results. ...
HFGA‐Net: High‐frequency guided attention network for deepfake detection and localization
The application of deepfake for video and image manipulation has raised severe trust issues and security concerns in modern society. Prior research has revealed that the high‐frequency components of forged images exhibit distinctive forensic artifacts. Motivated by this, we propo...