Title
Machine Learning Based Approaches for Sex Identification in Bioarchaeology
Abstract
In this paper we approach from a machine learningperspective the problem of identifying the sex of archaeologicalremains from anthropometric data, an important problem withinthe field of bioarchaeology. As the conditions for detecting thesex of a skeleton are not entirely known, machine learning baseddata mining models are appropriate to address this problem sincethey are able to capture unobservable patterns in data. Thesepatterns could be relevant for classifying a skeletal remain asmale or female. We propose two machine learning models basedon artificial neural networks for identifying the sex of humanskeletons from bone measurements. The proposed models areexperimentally evaluated on case studies generated from twodata sets publicly available in the archaeological literature. Theobtained results show that the proposed data mining modelsare effective for detecting the sex of archaeological remains, confirming the potential of our proposal.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/SYNASC.2016.056
2016 18th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
bioarchaeology,sex identification,machine learning,radial basis function networks,self-organizing maps
Data mining,Data modeling,Computer science,Bone Measurements,Artificial intelligence,Artificial neural network,Unobservable,Bioarchaeology,Machine learning
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2470-881X
978-1-5090-5708-5
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Diana-Lucia Miholca100.34
Gabriela Czibula28019.53
Ioan-Gabriel Mircea300.34
István Gergely Czibula49111.79