Data reconstruction and visualization techniques for forensic pathology

  • Authors:
  • Alexander Ehlert;Zein Salah;Dirk Bartz

  • Affiliations:
  • Visual Computing for Medicine Group, University of Tübingen, Germany;Visual Computing for Medicine Group, University of Tübingen, Germany;Visual Computing for Medicine Group, University of Tübingen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • EUROVIS'06 Proceedings of the Eighth Joint Eurographics / IEEE VGTC conference on Visualization
  • Year:
  • 2006

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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.