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Chen Shen¹, Chunfeng Lian^2,3, Wanqing Zhang¹

¹Key Laboratory of National Ministry of Health for Forensic Sciences, School of Medicine & Forensics, Health Science Center, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.

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A new visual-language model, SongCi, enhances forensic pathology by improving accuracy and efficiency in determining cause of death. This AI tool matches expert pathologist performance, addressing current field challenges.

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Area of Science:

Forensic Pathology
Computational Pathology
Artificial Intelligence

Background:

Forensic pathology determines cause of death via post-mortem examinations.
Current challenges include outcome variability, labor intensity, and professional shortages.
Advanced computational tools are needed to support forensic analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

Introduce SongCi, a visual-language model for forensic pathology.
Enhance accuracy, efficiency, and generalizability of forensic analyses.
Leverage prototypical cross-modal self-supervised contrastive learning.

Main Methods:

Trained SongCi on a large multi-center dataset (16M+ image patches, 2,228 vision-language pairs).
Validated performance against existing multi-modal and foundation models.
Assessed model capabilities against forensic pathologists with varying experience levels.

Main Results:

SongCi demonstrated superior performance in forensic tasks compared to existing models.
The model matched the capabilities of experienced forensic pathologists.
SongCi significantly outperformed less experienced practitioners.

Conclusions:

SongCi offers a powerful AI solution to support forensic pathology.
The model improves diagnostic accuracy and efficiency.
SongCi provides robust multi-modal explainability for forensic findings.