Artificial Intelligence in Forensic Medicine and Toxicology: The Future of Forensic Medicine

Abstract

The predominance of artificial intelligence (AI) will be the next Industrial Revolution. All the fields of industry will be reshaped with AI. Forensic medicine and toxicology is an important branch for investigations of crimes and this branch has tremendous scope of development with the help of AI. Any science or process cannot stay away long from newer techniques. The traditional way of doing an autopsy and framing an opinion has a lot of limitations and these limitations can be overcome with AI. Various procedures of forensic medicine like analysis of toxins, collection of the various samples of medicolegal importance from body cavity, detection of pathological changes in various organs of the body, detection of various stains on the body, detection of a weapon used in crime, time since death calculations, etc. are the areas where AI will play a key role in framing the various opinions of medicolegal importance. AI can also be integrated into existing testing and analysis processes to make the whole procedure rapid and more accurate. In the future, AI might become a key part of forensic medicine and toxicology practice.

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