Keith L. Monson, Erich D. Smith, Eugene M. Peters,
... rendered opinions on each comparison according to the Association of Firearm & Tool Mark Examiners (AFTE) Range of Conclusions, as Identification, Inconclusive (A, ...
Tópico(s): Reliability and Agreement in Measurement
2023 - Wiley | Journal of Forensic Sciences
Todd J. Weller, Alan Zheng, Robert M. Thompson, Fred Tulleners,
... This provides objective data that support the AFTE (Association of Firearms and Tool Mark Examiners) theory of identification.
Tópico(s): Forensic and Genetic Research
2012 - Wiley | Journal of Forensic Sciences
... precepts of the scientific method culminating in the Association of Firearms and Toolmark Examiners' Theory of Identification. Firearms and tool mark identification has been validated in a manner appropriate ...
Tópico(s): Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
2007 - Wiley | Journal of Forensic Sciences
Nicholas Scurich, Hal S. Stern,
... and for the practice of firearm examination. The Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners (AFTE) defines class characteristics as "measurable features of ...
Tópico(s): Forensic Fingerprint Detection Methods
2023 - Wiley | Journal of Forensic Sciences
Keith L. Monson, Erich D. Smith, Eugene M. Peters,
... 2022.100221 3 AFTE Standardization and Training Committee, Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners. Glossary. 6th ed. ; 2013 Accessed March 27, 2023. https://afte.org/uploads/documents/AFTE_Glossary_Version_6.091922_FINAL_COPYRIGHT.pdf 4 Association of Firearms and Toolmarks Examiners. Range of Conclusions. 2020 Accessed March 27, 2023. https://afte.org/about-us/what-is-afte/afte-range-of-conclusions 5Welch AK. History and manufacturing process of the Jennings/Bryco/Jimenez arms pistols. AFTE J. 2013; 45(3): 260–6. 6Raven MW. 25 automatic pistol breech face tool marks. AFTE J. 1984; 16(3): 57–60. 7Welch ...
Tópico(s): Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes
2023 - Wiley | Journal of Forensic Sciences
Carol Gambino, Patrick McLaughlin, Loretta Kuo, Frani Kammerman, Peter Shenkin, Peter Diaczuk, Nicholas Petraco, James E. Hamby, Nicholas Petraco,
... all “waviness surfaces”—the essential “line” information that firearm and tool mark examiners view under a microscope. Extracted waviness profiles were processed with principal component analysis (PCA) for dimension reduction. Support vector machines (SVM) were used to make the profile‐gun associations, and conformal prediction theory (CPT) for establishing confidence levels. At the 95% confidence level, CPT coupled with PCA‐SVM yielded an empirical error rate of 3.5%. Complementary, bootstrap‐based computations for estimated ...
Tópico(s): Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection
2011 - Wiley | Scanning
Eric M. Warren, H. David Sheets,
... scale the "inconclusive" category, as occurs in the Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners (AFTE) Range of Conclusions and many other such ...
Tópico(s): Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes
2023 - Elsevier BV | Forensic Science International
... identification” set out by a professional association, the Association of Firearms and Tool Mark Examiners (AFTE), which instructs practitioners to use the phrase “ ...
Tópico(s): Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes
2022 - | American Journal of Law and Equality