National Institute of Justice Researchers Create Program that Can Assist in Age of Death Determination

WASHINGTON – The Office of Justice Programs’ National Institute of Justice today published an article that details how NIJ-funded researchers created a new way to estimate the age of skeletal remains that outperforms current methods.

Researchers from Pennsylvania State University designed a computer program that “thinks” like a forensic anthropologist and provides reproducible estimates of adult skeletal age at death. When compared to known-age skeletal collections, the program more accurately predicts age than traditional methods.       

TITLE:	Algorithm Quantifies What Experts See When They Examine Skeletons
AUTHOR:	National Institute of Justice
WHERE:	https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/algorithm-quantifies-what-experts-see-when-they-examine-skeletons