Current Imaging in Forensic Medicine

Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue “Current Imaging in Forensic Medicine” aims to curate state-of-the-art evidence on post-mortem and clinical forensic imaging. We invite original research, methodological contributions, technical standards, and critical reviews encompassing CT, MRI, post-mortem CT angiography, micro-CT, cone-beam CT, ultrasound, optical and photogrammetric capture, and 3D surface scanning. Areas of focus include biomechanical and ballistic reconstruction, documentation of patterned injuries, age assessment, human identification, detection of natural disease and sudden cardiac death, imaging features of drowning and asphyxia, gas distribution and putrefactive change, air and fat embolism, radiopaque foreign bodies, child abuse, custodial deaths, and disaster victim identification. We particularly welcome studies that integrate machine and deep learning, as well as multimodal data fusion with autopsy, toxicology, and histology, and investigations that develop harmonized DICOM workflows and structured reporting. Submissions addressing study design and validation, observer-agreement metrics, calibration and phantom studies, quality assurance, and dose management are encouraged, in addition to contributions on data governance, chain-of-custody compliance, metadata provenance, evidentiary robustness, and protocols for resource-limited environments. Comparative trials, multi-center reference datasets, negative results with methodological insights, and pragmatic checklists are considered to be within the scope. Emphasis is placed on reproducible code, FAIR data, and preregistered analyses to strengthen transparency, reproducibility, and international harmonization.

Dr. Francesca Maglietta
Guest Editor

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