arXiv:2602.16714cs.AI2026-02

构建标准化牙科年龄评估本体,提升法医鉴定透明度与可复现性。

AIdentifyAGE Ontology for Decision Support in Forensic Dental Age Assessment

  • 基于领域本体构建统一框架,整合临床、法医与司法流程数据
  • 支持人工与AI方法的全流程追踪,实现观测与结果的可追溯关联
  • 适用于法医、司法及医疗系统,助力AI辅助决策的可信落地

年龄评估在法医和司法决策中至关重要,尤其涉及无身份人员和无人陪伴未成年人时,法律年龄阈值决定其获得保护、医疗及司法程序的权利。牙科年龄评估被公认为青少年和年轻成人最可靠的生物方法之一,但当前实践面临方法异质性、数据表示碎片化以及临床、法医与法律信息系统间互操作性差等问题,加剧了透明度与可复现性的挑战,尤其在日益普及的AI方法背景下。AIdentifyAGE本体是领域特定的标准化语义框架,涵盖手动与AI辅助的法牙科年龄评估全流程,支持观测、方法、参考数据与报告结果之间的可追溯链接。它建模完整的医法流程,集成司法背景、个体信息、法医检查数据、牙发育评估方法、影像学资料、统计参考研究及基于AI的估测方法。该本体由领域专家共同开发,依托已有的生物医学、牙科与机器学习本体,确保互操作性、可扩展性与符合FAIR原则。AIdentifyAGE是提升一致性、透明度与可解释性的关键一步,为医法与司法情境下的本体驱动决策支持系统奠定坚实基础。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Age assessment is crucial in forensic and judicial decision-making, particularly in cases involving undocumented individuals and unaccompanied minors, where legal thresholds determine access to protection, healthcare, and judicial procedures. Dental age assessment is widely recognized as one of the most reliable biological approaches for adolescents and young adults, but current practices are challenged by methodological heterogeneity, fragmented data representation, and limited interoperability between clinical, forensic, and legal information systems. These limitations hinder transparency and reproducibility, amplified by the increasing adoption of AI- based methods. The AIdentifyAGE ontology is domain-specific and provides a standardized, semantically coherent framework, encompassing both manual and AI-assisted forensic dental age assessment workflows, and enabling traceable linkage between observations, methods, reference data, and reported outcomes. It models the complete medico-legal workflow, integrating judicial context, individual-level information, forensic examination data, dental developmental assessment methods, radiographic imaging, statistical reference studies, and AI-based estimation methods. It is being developed together with domain experts, and it builds on upper and established biomedical, dental, and machine learning ontologies, ensuring interoperability, extensibility, and compliance with FAIR principles. The AIdentifyAGE ontology is a fundamental step to enhance consistency, transparency, and explainability, establishing a robust foundation for ontology-driven decision support systems in medico-legal and judicial contexts.

法医牙科本体建模决策支持AI可解释性

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