Clarifying violent death: the assessment of diagnostic methods and the identification of risk factors
6-month Progress Report of the PhD students of the Centre for Translational Medicine, Semmelweis University.
I am working at the Department of Pathology, Forensic and Insurance Medicine at Semmelweis University. My main area of interest is forensic radiology. Therefore, I am currently working on a systematic review and meta-analysis on the diagnostic accuracy of postmortem imaging techniques, like postmortem magnetic resonance imaging or computed tomography scan compared to the gold standard autopsy. Imaging methods could represent a less time-consuming method while avoiding any major alterations to the deceased. As a second project, I am planning to conduct a registry analysis, investigating the possible association between the incidence of suicidal death cases and environmental factors, like changes in humidity or air pressure. I hypothesize that the change in a meteorological factor like temperature, air pressure, etc., shows association with the incidence of suicidal death cases.
