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AI can analyse a decomposing body to help pinpoint the time of death

Determining when someone died based on their decomposing body is a subjective task, but artificial intelligence could bring some objectivity to the process

By Matthew Sparkes

28 November 2024

It is difficult to gauge when a person died from their decomposing body

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Establishing when a person died based on their decomposing body is a subjective problem with dozens of variables, so any two pathologists can arrive at different estimates. Now, researchers are developing an artificial intelligence model in an attempt to bring some objective replicability into the process.

and at Clemson University in South Carolina are two of the scientists working on , a tool that is partly a database of information on previously discovered bodies and partly an AI tool…

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