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Future evidence in the bio-medicolegal sciences will emerge from transdisciplinary innovation, which, through the application of new technologies, involving the integration of imaging and bio-analysis, will be able to bridge knowledge gaps and reduce the black holes of knowledge, in an irreversible transition towards molecular evidence. The chapter depicts an overview of the contributions that every single discipline could bring to bio-medicolegal knowledge through its hyper-specialization, highlighting the role of transdisciplinary innovation, towards the realization of the Radiomics Project, the improvement of the level of Evidence and the diffusion of Educational Training, through an Interdisciplinary Masterplan, aimed at the scientific validation, certification and quality accreditation of the new technologies, with the ultimate goal of personalization, prediction and protection of human and personal rights, in the P5 Medicine and Justice perspective.

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Ferrara, S.D. (2017). Transdisciplinary Innovation and Future Evidence. In: Ferrara, S. (eds) P5 Medicine and Justice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67092-8_39

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