ABSTRACT

For the generation of 3D models of the osseous system and the skin surface of the deceased from plane multislice

computed tompography (MSCT) images, segmentation software is needed. At the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Bern, Switzerland, the software SliceViewer is used [1]. This program works with the threshold technique for the segmentation of medical 2D images into a 3D series. The respective pixels of the object are separated by an adjusted threshold value and are marked in a binary image. After the separation by threshold value, a new binary matrix for each image is created. The slice level allows for the computation of the 3D model from these created binary images (Figure D4.1.1).