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 Pediatric Fracture Printing: Creating a Science of Statistical Fracture Signature Analysis
Award Information
Awardee
              Michigan State University
Award #
              2011-DN-BX-K540
Funding Category
              Competitive
Location
                    East Lansing, MI
Congressional District
              8
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2011
Total funding (to date)
              $681,147
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 11 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2011, $681,147)
This research will address this significant gap in best practice through a multidisciplinary effort that: (1) continues the development of experimental data from an experimental animal model, to help correlate input forces and cranial fracture patterns; (2) develops a pattern recognition method for "fracture-printing" to be used in the identification of injury causation, initially based on this "ground truth" data from an animal model; and (3) collects data on human pediatric deaths involving blunt force cranial fracture and known impact scenarios from current forensic case files at medical examiner offices across the country to establish a database (The Pediatric Cranial Fracture Registry).  This research will develop automated pattern recognition methods to classify cranial fracture patterns based on contact interface, impact energy, and head constraint condition based on subject age. The predictive analysis will use classification models that are generated using experimentally produced data (e.g. digital images of cranial fractures) and are accompanied with the ground truth data (i.e. contact interface, impact energy, and head constraint condition). The ultimate aim of this research will be that for a given cranial fracture pattern in a subject of a given age; the researchers will be able to compute a statistical probability that a particular impact condition was the cause. ca/ncf



  
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                      Classification of Porcine Cranial Fracture Patterns Using a Fracture Printing Interface
                  Role of Interface Shape on the Impact Characteristics and Cranial Fracture Patterns Using the Immature Porcine Head Model
                  Role of Interface on the Impact Characteristics and Cranial Fracture Patterns Using the Immature Porcine Head Model
                  Pediatric Fracture Printing: Creating a Science of Statistical Fracture Signature Analysis

  
Date Created: September 15, 2011
    
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