Personal identification

Full name

David Senhora Navega

Gender

Male

Citation names

• Navega, D
• Navega, D. S.
• Navega, David

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

0516-9203-A7BC

ORCID iD

0000-0003-4495-3762

Google Scholar ID

a3Is9uQAAAAJ

Email addresses

• dsnavega@gmail.com (Personal)

Knowledge fields

• Medical and Health Sciences - Other Medical Sciences - Forensic Science
• Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Bioinformatics
• Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)

	Degree	Classification
2015/09/01 - 2023/03/30 Concluded	Anthropology (Doctor of Philosophy) Major in Forensic Anthropology Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal "Multifactorial age estimation in forensic anthropology and medicine: a machine learning approach" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2022/11/23 Attended	Imagiologia forense para a patologia e a antropologia forenses (Outros) Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal e Ciências Forenses, Portugal
2022/09/14 - 2022/09/17 Concluded	Disaster Victim Identification (Outros) Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal e Ciências Forenses, Portugal
2021/11/16 Concluded	Estimación forense de la edad en le sujeto vivo (Outros) Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal e Ciências Forenses, Portugal
2017/09/21 - 2017/10/28 Concluded	Thanatology Technician Certificate (Outros) Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal e Ciências Forenses, Portugal
2017/03/17 - 2017/03/18 Concluded	Seminário Prático em Medicina Dentária e Antropologia Forenses (Outros) Cooperativa de Ensino Superior Politécnico e Universitário, Portugal
2017/03/10 - 2017/03/11 Concluded	Seminario de Especialização em Antropologia Forense (Outros) Cooperativa de Ensino Superior Politécnico e Universitário, Portugal
2016/11/12 - 2016/11/12 Concluded	Sínfise púbica e idade à morte em Antropologia Forense (Outros) Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal e Ciências Forenses, Portugal
2016/09/01 - 2016/09/05 Concluded	FASE Basic Workshop in Forensic Anthropology (40H) (Outros) Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe, Switzerland
2016/06/03 - 2016/06/03 Concluded	Advances in Skeletal Analysis: Age and Sex Estimation (Outros) Museu Nacional de História Natural e Ciência, Portugal
2015/06/01 - 2015/06/01 Concluded	Workshop on human tooth crown and root morphology (Outros) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal
2014/07/02 - 2014/07/04 Concluded	New methodologies and protocols of forensic identification by craniofacial superimposition (MEPROCS) (Outros) University of Dundee, United Kingdom
2013/09/26 - 2013/09/28 Concluded	Advanced Course on Postmortem Interval (Outros) Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe, Switzerland
2011/09/01 - 2012/08/01 Concluded	Forensic Anthropology (Postgraduate Certificate) Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal e Ciências Forenses, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal	19
2010/09/01 - 2012/08/01 Concluded	Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences (Master) Major in Forensic Anthropology Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal "Sex estimation from the tarsals and metatarsals (PT)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2012/06/13 - 2012/06/14 Concluded	Perícias médico-legais em Antropologia Forense (Outros) Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal e Ciências Forenses, Portugal
2012/04/12 - 2012/04/12 Concluded	Registo Fotográfico Forense (Outros) Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal e Ciências Forenses, Portugal
2011/09/13 - 2011/09/13 Concluded	Forensic Investigations of Human Remains from Armed Conflicts and Catastrophes (Outros) International Association of Forensic Sciences, Belgium
2010/09/01 - 2011/08/01 Concluded	Higher Diploma in Legal Medicine (Postgraduate Certificate) Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal e Ciências Forenses, Portugal	16
2010/11/08 - 2010/12/17 Concluded	Analysis of Organismal Form (Outros) The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
2010/10/11 - 2010/10/15 Concluded	4th European Workshop of Forensic Anthropology (Outros) Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe, Switzerland
2007/09/01 - 2010/08/01 Concluded	Anthropology (Bachelor) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal	17
2010/04/23 - 2010/04/24 Concluded	Arqueotanatologia em contexto de salvamento (Outros) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal
2009/03/27 - 2009/03/28 Concluded	Fundamentos de Antropologia de Campo (Outros) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2015/09/01 - 2019/08/01	Research Trainee (Research)	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
2012/08/01 - 2014/08/01	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/05/01 - Current	Forensic Autopsy Technician	Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal e Ciências Forenses, Portugal
	Gabinete Médico-Legal e Forense do Baixo Vouga, Portugal
2010/11/16 - 2010/12/15	Forensic Anthropology Trainee	Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal e Ciências Forenses, Portugal

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2019/12/02 - 2019/12/13	Bakeng se Afrika Bakeng se Afrika PhD Student Fellow University of Pretoria, South Africa	Erasmus Plus Concluded
2015/09 - 2019/08	Multifactorial age estimation in forensic anthropology and medicine: a machine learning approach SFRH/BD/99676/2014	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2012/08/01 - 2014	MEPROCS - The New Methodologies and Protocols of Forensic Identification by Craniofacial Superimposition 285624 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal	European Commission Concluded
2010/09/01 - 2011/09/01	Paleoepidemiology of osteoporosis and osteoporotic fractures in Portugal since the Mesolithic: a transdisciplinary study PTDC/CS-ANT/120173/2010 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Publications

Book chapter	Navega, David; Cunha, Eugénia. "Extreme learning machine neural networks for adult skeletal age-at-death estimation". In Statistics and Probability in Forensic Anthropology, 209-225. Elsevier, 2020. Published • 10.1016/b978-0-12-815764-0.00019-8 d’Oliveira Coelho, João; Curate, Francisco; Navega, David; Coelho, João d¿Oliveira. "Osteomics: Decision support systems for forensic anthropologists". In Statistics and Probability in Forensic Anthropology, 259-273. Elsevier, 2020. 10.1016/b978-0-12-815764-0.00005-8 Algee-Hewitt, Bridget; Coelho, Catarina; Navega, David; Cunha, Eugénia. "Statistical approaches to ancestry estimation: New and established methods for the quantification of cranial variation for forensic casework". In Statistics and Probability in Forensic Anthropology, 227-247. Elsevier, 2020. 10.1016/b978-0-12-815764-0.00018-6
Conference abstract	Navega, David; Costa, Ernesto; Cunha, Eugénia. "A deep learning approach to adult skeletal age-at-death estimation". Paper presented in Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe 20th Anniversary Symposium, Marseille, 2023. Accepted Navega, David; Costa, Ernesto; Cunha, Eugénia. "Lost in the woods: The value of tree ensemble modelling for adult age-at-death estimation from skeletal degeneration". Paper presented in Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe Symposium, Milan, 2017. Published • 10.1016/j.medleg.2017.10.006 Bessa, Angela; Navega, David; Ferreira, Maria Teresa; Cunha, Eugénia. "Finding what is missing: Three-dimensional coordinates estimation for ancestry assessment through geometric morphometrics". Paper presented in Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe Symposium, Milan, 2017. Published • 10.1016/j.medleg.2017.10.031 Coelho, Catarina; Ferreira, Maria Teresa; Navega, David; Cunha, Eugénia; Wasterlain, Sofia N.. "The efficacy of calcanei to estimate ancestry". Paper presented in Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe Symposium, Milan, 2017. Published • 10.1016/j.medleg.2017.10.029 Makhoul, Calil; Amarante, Ana; Coelho, João d’Oliveira; Navega, David; Almeida, Miguel; Parker, Stewart F.; Ferreira, Maria Teresa; et al. "Experimental burning and real fire scenarios: Are they comparable in terms of chemical anthropology?". Paper presented in Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe Symposium, Milan, 2017. Published • 10.1016/j.medleg.2017.10.019
Conference paper	Andrade, B.; Dias, P.; Santos, B.S.; Coelho, C.; Coelh, J.D.; Navega, D.; Ferreira, M.T.; Wasterlain, S.. "Morphological analysis of 3D skull models for ancestry estimation". 2018. 10.1109/iV.2018.00104 Andrade, B.; Dias, P.; Coelho, C.; Coelho, J.; Navega, D.; Wasterlain, S.N.; Ferreira, M.T.; Santos, B.S.. "Towards automatic non-metric traits analysis on 3D models of skulls". 2017. 10.1109/EPCGI.2016.7851196
Conference poster	Navega, D; Costa, Ernesto; Cunha, Eugénia. "DRNNAGE: Deep randomized neural networks for Adult Age-at-death estimation". Paper presented in 20.º Congresso Nacional de Medicina Legal e Ciências Forenses, 2021. Navega, D; d'Oliveira Coelho, J.; Cunha, Eugénia; Curate, Francisco. "Estimativa da idade à morte com base na densidade mineral óssea do fémur proximal: uma abordagem com redes neuronais artificiais". Paper presented in III Conferência do Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal e Ciências Forenses, 2016. Navega, D; d'Oliveira Coelho, J.; Coelho, C; Vicente, R; Curate, Francisco; Cunha, Eugénia. "Teste do método Diagnose Sexualle Probabilistique (DSP) numa amostra da colecção de esqueletos identificados do século XXI". Paper presented in II Conferência do Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal e Ciências Forenses, 2015. Navega, D; Vicente, R; Gama, I; Coelho, C; Gomes, R; Ferreira, Maria Teresa; Cunha, Eugénia; Curate, Francisco. "Eigenfemora: A pilot study on PCA-based image analysis for age estimation from the proximal femur". Paper presented in 12.º Congresso Nacional de Medicina Legal e Ciências Forenses, 2013. Navega, D; Coelho, C; Ferreira, Maria Teresa; Cunha, Eugénia. "AncesTrees: ancestry estimation with randomized decision trees". Paper presented in FASE 10th Anniversary Symposium, 2013. Navega, D; Vicente, R; Cunha, Eugénia. "Estimativa do sexo com base no comprimento axial dos metatársicos". Paper presented in 11.º Congresso Nacional de Medicina Legal e Ciências Forenses, 2012.
Journal article	Curate, Francisco; Navega, D; Cunha, Eugénia; Coelho, João d’Oliveira. "DXAGE 2.0 — adult age at death estimation using bone loss in the proximal femur and the second metacarpal". International Journal of Legal Medicine 136 5 (2022): 1483-1494. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00414-022-02840-y. 10.1007/s00414-022-02840-y Navega, D; Costa, Ernesto; Cunha, Eugénia. Corresponding author: Navega, D. "Adult Skeletal Age-at-Death Estimation through Deep Random Neural Networks: A New Method and Its Computational Analysis". Biology 11 4 (2022): 532. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology11040532. 10.3390/biology11040532 Ferreira MT; Coelho C; Makhoul C; Navega D; Gonçalves D; Cunha E; Curate F. "New data about the 21st Century Identified Skeletal Collection (University of Coimbra, Portugal).". International journal of legal medicine (2020): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/32857278. 10.1007/s00414-020-02399-6 Rodrigues, H.; Ramos, R.; Fagundes, L.; Galego, O.; Navega, D.; Coelho, J.D.; Alves, F.C.; Cunha, E.. "Mastoid, middle ear and inner ear analysis in CT scan – a possible contribution for the identification of remains". Medicine, Science and the Law (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85079403675&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1177/0025802419893424 Corron, Louise; Adalian, Pascal; Condemi, Silvana; Marchal, François; Navega, D. "Sub-adult aging method selection (SAMS): A decisional tool for selecting and evaluating sub-adult age estimation methods based on standardized methodological parameters". Forensic Science International 304 (2019): 109897. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2019.109897. 10.1016/j.forsciint.2019.109897 Vilas-Boas, D.; Wasterlain, S.N.; d'Oliveira Coelho, J.; Navega, D.; Gonçalves, D.. "SPINNE: An app for human vertebral height estimation based on artificial neural networks". Forensic Science International 298 (2019): 121-130. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85062969611&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.forsciint.2019.02.056 David Navega; Maria Godinho; Eugénia Cunha; Maria Teresa Ferreira. "A test and analysis of Calce (2012) method for skeletal age-at-death estimation using the acetabulum in a modern skeletal sample". International Journal of Legal Medicine 132 5 (2018): 1447-1455. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-018-1902-9. 10.1007/s00414-018-1902-9 David Navega; João d'Oliveira Coelho; Eugénia Cunha; Francisco Curate. "DXAGE : A New Method for Age at Death Estimation Based on Femoral Bone Mineral Density and Artificial Neural Networks". Journal of Forensic Sciences 63 2 (2018): 497-503. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.13582. 10.1111/1556-4029.13582 G. Richard Scott; Marin Pilloud; David Navega; João Coelho; Eugénia Cunha; Joel Irish. "rASUDAS: A New Web-Based Application for Estimating Ancestry from Tooth Morphology". Forensic Anthropology 1 1 (2018): 18-31. https://doi.org/10.5744%2Ffa.2018.0003. 10.5744/fa.2018.0003 Gonçalves, D.; d'Oliveira Coelho, J.; Amarante, A.; Makhoul, C.; Oliveira-Santos, I.; Navega, D.; Cunha, E.. "Dead weight: Validation of mass regression equations on experimentally burned skeletal remains to assess skeleton completeness". Science and Justice 58 1 (2018): 2-6. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85025823922&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.scijus.2017.07.003 Koterová, A.; Navega, D.; Štepanovský, M.; Buk, Z.; Bružek, J.; Cunha, E.. "Age estimation of adult human remains from hip bones using advanced methods". Forensic Science International 287 (2018): 163-175. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85045390187&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.forsciint.2018.03.047 Machado, M.P.S.; Costa, S.T.; Freire, A.R.; Navega, D.; Cunha, E.; Daruge Júnior, E.; Prado, F.B.; Rossi, A.C.. "Application and validation of Diagnose Sexuelle Probabiliste V2 tool in a miscegenated population". Forensic Science International 290 (2018): 351.e1-351.e5. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85050823695&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.forsciint.2018.06.043 Ermida, C.; Navega, D.; Cunha, E.. "Luminol chemiluminescence: contribution to postmortem interval determination of skeletonized remains in Portuguese forensic context". International Journal of Legal Medicine 131 4 (2017): 1149-1153. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85011005149&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1007/s00414-017-1547-0 Coelho, C.; Navega, D.; Cunha, E.; Ferreira, M.T.; Wasterlain, S.N.. "Ancestry Estimation Based on Morphoscopic Traits in a Sample of African Slaves from Lagos, Portugal (15th–17th Centuries)". International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 27 2 (2017): 320-326. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85017557340&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1002/oa.2542 Gonçalves, D.; d'Oliveira Coelho, J.; Acosta, M.A.; Coelho, C.; Curate, F.; Ferreira, M.T.; Gouveia, M.; et al. "One for all and all for one: Linear regression from the mass of individual bones to assess human skeletal mass completeness". American Journal of Physical Anthropology 160 3 (2016): 427-432. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84974707463&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1002/ajpa.22979 Ibáñez, O.; Vicente, R.; Navega, D.; Campomanes-Álvarez, C.; Cattaneo, C.; Jankauskas, R.; Huete, M.I.; et al. "MEPROCS framework for Craniofacial Superimposition: Validation study". Legal Medicine 23 (2016): 99-108. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84994051841&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.legalmed.2016.10.007 Curate, F.; Coelho, J.; Gonçalves, D.; Coelho, C.; Ferreira, M.T.; Navega, D.; Cunha, E.. "A method for sex estimation using the proximal femur". Forensic Science International 266 (2016): 579.e1-579.e7. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84978474456&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.forsciint.2016.06.011 Ibáñez, O.; Valsecchi, A.; Cavalli, F.; Huete, M.I.; Campomanes-Alvarez, B.R.; Campomanes-Alvarez, C.; Vicente, R.; et al. "Study on the criteria for assessing skull-face correspondence in craniofacial superimposition". Legal Medicine 23 (2016): 59-70. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84991261745&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.legalmed.2016.09.009 Navega, D.; Coelho, C.; Vicente, R.; Ferreira, M.T.; Wasterlain, S.; Cunha, E.. "AncesTrees: ancestry estimation with randomized decision trees". International Journal of Legal Medicine 129 5 (2015): 1145-1153. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84940449597&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1007/s00414-014-1050-9 Gama, I.; Navega, D.; Cunha, E.. "Sex estimation using the second cervical vertebra: a morphometric analysis in a documented Portuguese skeletal sample". International Journal of Legal Medicine 129 2 (2015): 365-372. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84923247669&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1007/s00414-014-1083-0 Navega, D.; Vicente, R.; Vieira, D.N.; Ross, A.H.; Cunha, E.. "Sex estimation from the tarsal bones in a Portuguese sample: a machine learning approach". International Journal of Legal Medicine 129 3 (2015): 651-659. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84928344889&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1007/s00414-014-1070-5 Ibáñez, O.; Vicente, R.; Navega, D.S.; Wilkinson, C.; Jayaprakash, P.T.; Huete, M.I.; Briers, T.; et al. "Study on the performance of different craniofacial superimposition approaches (I)". Forensic Science International 257 (2015): 496-503. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84954197010&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.forsciint.2015.05.030 Ferreira, M.T.; Vicente, R.; Navega, D.; Gonçalves, D.; Curate, F.; Cunha, E.. "A new forensic collection housed at the University of Coimbra, Portugal: The 21st century identified skeletal collection". Forensic Science International 245 (2014): 202.e1-202.e5. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84912036744&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.forsciint.2014.09.021 Navega, David; Cunha, Eugénia; Pedroso de Lima, João; Curate, Francisco. "The external phenotype of the proximal femur in Portugal during the 20th century". (2013): http://hdl.handle.net/10316/25199. 10.1016/j.scijus.2017.07.003

Other

Software

Navega, D. "DRNNAGE: Deep random neural networks for adult skeletal age-at-death estimation". 2022. Navega, D. "SAMS: A decisional tool for selecting and evaluating sub-adult age estimation methods". 2019. Navega, D; d'Oliveira Coelho, J.. "SPINNE: Spine Proportion through Implementation of Neural Networks". 2019. Navega, D; d'Oliveira Coelho, J.. "rASUDAS: A New Web-Based Application for Estimating Ancestry from Tooth Morphology". 2018. Navega, D; d'Oliveira Coelho, J.. "DXAGE: Age at Death Estimation Based on Femoral Bone Mineral Density and Artificial Neural Networks". 2017. Navega, D; d'Oliveira Coelho, J.; Curate, Francisco. "SeuPF: Sex estimation using the proximal femur". 2016. Navega, D; d'Oliveira Coelho, J.. "MassReg: Automated linear regressions to assess human skeletal mass completeness". 2016. Navega, David; d'Oliveira Coelho, J.. "Osteomics". Web: https://osteomics.com. 2016. Navega, D. "AncesTrees: Ancestry estimation via Random Forests". 2015.

Award

2023	UC Life Science - Anthropology Best Paper Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2021	Best Poster Presentation Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal e Ciências Forenses, Portugal
2017	Best Oral Presentation Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe, Switzerland
2010	Prize awarded to 3% of students in each Degree at the Faculty of Science and Technology with better academic performance in the year of 2008/2009 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2009	Prize awarded to 3% of students in each Degree at the Faculty of Science and Technology with better academic performance in the year of 2007/2008 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal