Over 10 Million Domestic Violence Victims Per Year

Over 40% of victims are People of Color

In forensics, investigators screen the victims’ bruises to provide insight regarding the severity of the attack. The age of the bruise can be used as evidence in court to help bring offenders to justice. Medical professionals can also use this information to better serve patients and monitor the bruise healing process.

The current gold standard to perform hematology remains the traditional coloration guide, a standard of well documented bruises on light skin in which photographs of the victims’ bruises are compared against. This method, however, has an accuracy as low as 55% - only slightly better than a coin flip.

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Our Solution

Portable Bruise Spectroscopy Across ALL Skin Tones

Our end goal is to supply forensic and medical professionals with a portable multispectral device designed to non-invasively capture the reflectance spectra of the bruise. This information allows us to provide a quantitative measurement of the age of the bruise, making bruise information more meaningful.

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100% Student Driven

Based in Southern California

Current students and recent alumni from the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, have taken the lead on progress towards our first minimum viable product. We are committed to engineering excellence and fostering purposeful science.

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