Cardiac dimensions measured from post-mortem photographs: are they accurate?
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Martin, Jeremy
Thompson, Melissa
Ondruschka, Benjamin
Da Broi, Ugo
Tse, Rexson
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Peer reviewing post-mortem reports, photographs and histology is a mandatory process in the everyday practice of forensic pathology. In the context of organ measurement/dimensions, comparing the dimensions measured from a post-mortem photograph and what was recorded in the post-mortem report is sometimes necessary. However, there are limited studies validating the accuracy of dimensions measured from a photograph in forensic pathology. This study examined the cardiac dimensions measured from a standard post-mortem photograph of a heart section. It showed that although there was acceptable intra- and inter-rater reliability, the overall accuracy was low compared with gross measurement at post-mortem examination. The results from this study suggest that measurements taken from a post-mortem photograph have limited utility in assessing cardiac dimensions. The reasons for this discrepancy and recommendations on how to improve the accuracy are provided.
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Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences
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© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
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Biomedical imaging
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Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Medicine, Legal
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Post-mortem
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Gadsby, Z; Martin, J; Thompson, M; Ondruschka, B; Da Broi, U; Tse, R, Cardiac dimensions measured from post-mortem photographs: are they accurate?, Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2023