TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Automated diatom searching in the digital scanning electron microscopy images of drowning cases using the deep neural networks
JO  - International journal of legal medicine
A1  - Yu, Weimin
A1  - Xue, Ye
A1  - Knoops, Rob
A1  - Yu, Danyuan
A1  - Balmashnova, Evgeniya
A1  - Kang, Xiaodong
A1  - Falgari, Pietro
A1  - Zheng, Dongyun
A1  - Liu, Pengfei
A1  - Chen, Hui
A1  - Shi, He
A1  - Liu, Chao
A1  - Zhao, Jian
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - Forensic diatom test has been widely accepted as a way of providing supportive evidences in the diagnosis of drowning. The current workflow is primarily based on the observation of diatoms by forensic pathologists under a microscopy, and this process can be very time-consuming. In this paper, we demonstrate a deep learning-based approach for automatically searching diatoms in scanning electron microscopic images. Cross-validation studies were performed to evaluate the influence of magnification on performance. Moreover, various training strategies were tested to improve the performance of detection. The conclusion shows that our approach can satisfy the necessary requirements to be integrated as part of an automatic forensic diatom test.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0937-9827
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00414-020-02392-z
ID  - ref1
ER  -