Title
Bruise dating using deep learning
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Blackwell Publishing Inc.
Abstract
The bruise dating can have important medicolegal implications in family violence and violence against women cases. However, studies show that the medical specialist has 50% accuracy in classifying a bruise by age, mainly due to the variability of the images and the color of the bruise. This research proposes a model, based on deep convolutional neural networks, for bruise dating using only images, by age ranges, ranging from 0–2 days to 17–30 days, and images of healthy skin. A 2140 experimental bruise photograph dataset was constructed, for which a data capture protocol and a preprocessing procedure are proposed. Similarly, 20 classification models were trained with the Inception V3, Resnet50, MobileNet, and MnasNet architectures, where combinations of learning transfer, cross-validation, and data augmentation were used. Numerical experiments show that classification models based on MnasNet have better results, reaching 97.00% precision and sensitivity, and 99.50% specificity, exceeding 40% precision reported in the literature. Also, it was observed that the precision of the model decreases with the age of the bruise.
Start page
336
End page
346
Volume
66
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencia forense Ciencias de la computación
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85091685244
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Forensic Sciences
ISSN of the container
00221198
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