Letter: Design flaws in study of differentiating functional abdominal pain, recurrent acute pancreatitis and chronic pancreatitis via radiomics features. Authors' reply.

Mahya Faghih, Vikesh K Singh, Rouzbeh Mashayekhi, Vishwa S Parekh, Michael A Jacobs, Atif Zaheer

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Article in European journal of radiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Mahya FaghihPancreatitis Center, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.

Vikesh K SinghPancreatitis Center, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.

Rouzbeh MashayekhiPancreatitis Center, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.

Vishwa S ParekhDepartment of Computer Science, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21208, USA.

Michael A JacobsThe Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.

Atif ZaheerPancreatitis Center, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA; The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA. Electronic address: azaheer1@jhmi.edu.

Funding

Multi-Modality Quantitiative Imaging for Evaluation of Response to Cancer TherapyU01CA140204 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI DU, YONG, SOLNES, LILJA · 2011 to 2022

$6.1M

NCI NIH HHS U01 CA140204

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Pancreatitis, ChronicAbdominal PainAcute DiseaseHumansTomography, X-Ray Computed

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PMID32143900

DOI10.1016/j.ejrad.2020.108871

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