Guide
Imaging and pathology exhibits
Medico-legal files often include imaging and pathology: X-rays, CT or MRI images, histology slides, photographs of injuries. Lawyers and non-specialist experts need to understand what an exhibit shows before they can test what an expert says about it. MIA reads exhibits as supplied, in educational pattern language, and keeps the limits on the page.
What MIA does with an exhibit
- Describes visible findings only, with no invented measurement.
- Names any inference as inference.
- States what the exhibit does not establish.
- Keeps one rule throughout: a finding is not a cause.
What it is not
It isn't a radiology report, a pathology report or a diagnosis. It doesn't replace the treating clinician or the instructed expert. MIA is an educational literature and exhibit desk, not a clinician and not a medical device.
A worked shape (illustrative)
Exhibit: a single image supplied without the clinical history or the formal report. The file shows: the visible pattern, described in educational terms. May be drawn: patterns of this kind are discussed in the literature in connection with several possible processes. Does not establish: timing, mechanism, cause, or which process is present. No formal report or history is on file. Record: read the formal report and history before relying on any reading of this exhibit.
Why the limits matter
The commonest exhibit error in medico-legal work is reading a cause into an image: "the scan shows the injury was caused by…". Most images show a state, not a history. A careful working says what is visible and stops there, which is what an opposing expert will do in the witness box.
Good practice when you supply an exhibit
- Supply the formal report alongside the image where one exists.
- Note the date the image was taken relative to the events.
- Say what the expert claims the exhibit shows, so the working can test that claim.
Limits that always apply
MIA gives no dosing, schedules or implementation parameters, and no help accessing care or trials.
How MIA works on an exhibit
Sign in at mia.medicalintel.org and put the exhibit on a file. You can attach it directly or from a connected Google Drive or Dropbox. Ask is one pass. Review runs again when the file has changed. Deep Review is two independent workings, settled into agree, contest or still a gap. The exhibit stays on that desk. On an FIA Plan seat, you can send an FIA Brief to LIA Pro so the legal file can use the working.
Questions
Can AI read a scan for a legal case?
MIA can describe what is visible, educationally, and say what the image doesn't establish. It doesn't report or diagnose. A qualified clinician must.
Can an image show what caused an injury?
Usually it shows a state, not a cause. MIA keeps finding and cause apart.
Does MIA give treatment advice?
No.