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. 2023 Dec 13;138(3):1023–1037. doi: 10.1007/s00414-023-03140-9

Table 1.

Search queries used for each database in order to extract articles for screening

Database Search query
PubMed (MeSH terms) (“Artificial Intelligence”[MeSH] OR “Decision Trees”[MeSH] OR “Neural Networks, Computer”[MeSH] OR “Decision Support Techniques”[MeSH]) AND (“Autopsy”[MeSH] OR “Thanatology”[MeSH] OR “Forensic Medicine”[MeSH]) NOT (“Genomics”[MeSH] OR “DNA”[MeSH] OR “RNA” [MeSH] OR “Forensic Genetics”[MeSH] OR “Forensic Toxicology”[MeSH] OR “Forensic Dentistry”[MeSH] OR “Forensic Ballistics”[MeSH] OR “Forensic Entomology”[MeSH] OR “Forensic Psychiatry”[MeSH] OR “Forensic Psychology”[MeSH] OR “Biometric Identification”[MeSH] OR “Forensic Anthropology”[MeSH] OR “Blood Stains”[MeSH] OR “Dermatoglyphics”[MeSH] OR “DNA Fingerprinting”[MeSH] OR “Legal Epidemiology”[MeSH] OR “Lie Detection”[MeSH] OR “Paternity”[MeSH] OR “Research”[MeSH])
PubMed (Text words) ((“forensic medicine”[Text Word] OR “forensic pathologist*”[Text Word] OR “forensic physician*”[Text Word] OR “forensic medical doctor*”[Text Word] OR “medicolegal pathologist*”[Text Word] OR “medicolegal physician*”[Text Word] OR “medicolegal doctor*”[Text Word]) AND (“artificial intelligence”[Text Word] OR “algorithm*”[Text Word] OR “machine learning”[Text Word] OR “deep learning”[Text Word] OR “statistical learning”[Text Word] OR “supervised learning”[Text Word] OR “unsupervised learning”[Text Word] OR “semi-supervised learning”[Text Word] OR “predictive modeling”[Text Word] OR “clustering”[Text Word] OR “dimensionality reduction”[Text Word] OR “ensemble method*”[Text Word] OR “transfer learning”[Text Word] OR “reinforcement learning”[Text Word] OR “feature selection”[Text Word] OR “decision support”[Text Word] OR “neural network*”[Text Word] OR “expert system*”[Text Word] OR “multi-agent system*”[Text Word] OR “multiagent system*”[Text Word] OR “decision tree*”[Text Word] OR “random forest*”[Text Word] OR “gradient boosting”[Text Word] OR “logistic regression*”[Text Word] OR “support vector machine*”[Text Word] OR “Bayesian network*”[Text Word] OR “Naïve Bayes”[Text Word] OR “natural language processing”[Text Word] OR “computer vision”[Text Word] OR “Markov decision*”[Text Word] OR “genetic algorithm*”[Text Word] OR “fuzzy model*”[Text Word] OR “fuzzy logic*”[Text Word] OR heuristic*[Text Word])) NOT (genomic*[Text Word] OR DNA[Text Word] OR RNA[Text Word] OR “digital forensic*”[Text Word] OR genetic*[Text Word] OR toxicolog*[Text Word] OR dentistry[Text Word] OR odontolog*[Text Word] OR ballistic*[Text Word] OR entomolog*[Text Word] OR psychiatr*[Text Word] OR psycho*[Text Word] OR biometr*[Text Word] OR anthropolog*[Text Word] OR “blood stain*”[Text Word] OR dermatoglyphic*[Text Word] OR “DNA fingerprint*”[Text Word] OR epidemiolog*[Text Word] OR “lie detection”[Text Word] OR paternity[Text Word] OR research*[Text Word])
ScienceDirect (“forensic medicine” OR “forensic pathologist” OR “forensic physician” OR “forensic medical doctor” OR “medicolegal pathologist” OR “medicolegal physician” OR “medicolegal doctor”) AND (“artificial intelligence”) AND (-DNA)
Scopus ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( ( ( {forensic medicine} OR {forensic pathologist*} OR {forensic physician*} OR {forensic medical doctor*} OR {medicolegal pathologist*} OR {medicolegal physician*} OR {medicolegal doctor*}) AND ( {artificial intelligence} OR {algorithm*} OR {machine learning} OR {deep learning} OR {statistical learning} OR {supervised learning} OR {unsupervised learning} OR {semi-supervised learning} OR {predictive modeling} OR {clustering} OR {dimensionality reduction} OR {ensemble method*} OR {transfer learning} OR {reinforcement learning} OR {feature selection} OR {decision support} OR {neural network*} OR {expert system*} OR {multi-agent system*} OR {multiagent system*} OR {decision tree*} OR {random forest*} OR {gradient boosting} OR {logistic regression*} OR {support vector machine*} OR {Bayesian network*} OR {natural language processing} OR {computer vision} OR {Markov decision} OR {genetic algorithm*} OR {fuzzy model*} OR {fuzzy logic*} OR heuristic*)) AND NOT ( genomic* OR {DNA} OR {RNA} OR {digital forensic*} OR {genetic*} OR {toxicolog*} OR {dentistry} OR {odontolog*} OR {ballistic*} OR {entomolog*} OR {psychiatr*} OR {psycho*} OR {biometr*} OR {anthropolog*} OR {blood stain*} OR {dermatoglyphic*} OR {DNA fingerprint*} OR {epidemiolog*} OR {lie detection} OR {paternity} OR {research*})) AND ( LANGUAGE ( english) OR LANGUAGE ( french)))