Just a Whole-Body CT Image Database_2018 R&D_59
In episode four of\xa0the 2018 NIJ R&D Season, Just Science\xa0speaks with\xa0Dr. Shamsi Berry, from the University of Mississippi Medical Center, about her research with standardizing a large-scale, whole-body CT image database.\xa0In 2010 the Office of the Medical Investigator for New Mexico was awarded an\xa0NIJ grant where they did high-resolution whole-body CT scans.\xa0 Fast forward six years later where another NIJ grant was awarded to create a free-access Decedent CT Database from those whole body CTs.\xa0 There will be over 15,000 autopsies that captures key data and whole-body CT images, which will be an invaluable resource to forensic researchers when it releases in late 2018.\xa0\xa0\n\nThis episode of Just Science is funded by the National Institute of Justice\u2019s Forensic Technology Center of Excellence.