DeepManner: Automatically Determining Manner of Death

摘要

Medical examiners are trained medical professional who are responsible for determining cause and manner of death (natural, accident, suicide, homicide, and undetermined). Their jurisdiction includes unexpected, violent, and unexplained deaths. The final conclusions determined by the medical examiners can have significant consequences, therefore it is important every case is handled in a consistent and unbiased fashion. We will show how modern natural language processing techniques can be used to automatically determine the manner of death from the textual descriptions of injuries, demographic info, scene description, and the microscopy results found in autopsy reports.