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ReviewJournal of the Chinese Medical Association : JCMA2020

Use of radiographic features in COVID-19 diagnosis: Challenges and perspectives.

Sin-Guang Chen, Ju-Yu Chen, Yi-Ping Yang, Chian-Shiu Chien, Mong-Lien Wang, Liang-Ting Lin

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Review in Journal of the Chinese Medical Association : JCMA, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. AI for COVID-19 Detection from Radiographs: Incisive Analysis of State of the Art Techniques, Key Challenges and Future Directions.Ingenierie et recherche biomedicale : IRBM = Biomedical engineering and research · 2022
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  8. Diagnostic accuracy of physician's gestalt in suspected COVID-19: Prospective bicentric study.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2021
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  13. Clinical manifestation and disease progression in COVID-19 infection.Journal of the Chinese Medical Association : JCMA · 2021
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  14. Diagnosing COVID-19 in the Emergency Department: A Scoping Review of Clinical Examinations, Laboratory Tests, Imaging Accuracy, and Biases.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Sin-Guang ChenDepartment of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Ju-Yu ChenDepartment of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Yi-Ping YangDepartment of Medical Research, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
Chian-Shiu ChienDepartment of Medical Research, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
Mong-Lien WangDepartment of Medical Research, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
Liang-Ting LinDepartment of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The rapid surge and wide spread of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) overshadows the entire medical industries worldwide. The stringent medical resources hinder the diagnostic capacity globally, while 84 000 of new cases confirmed within a single day of April 14, 2020. Real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) with is the current first-line diagnosis, but the false-negative rate remains concerned. Radiographic technologies and tools, including computed tomography (CT) and chest X-ray, were applied for initial screening and follow-up, from which the tools provide detail diagnosis with specific pathologic features for staging and treatment arrangement. Although the radiographic imaging is found less sensitive, numerous CT-positive patients were not screened out by RT-PCR initially and later confirmed as COVID-19 positive. Besides, the shortage of sampling kits and the longer turn-over time of PCR examinations in some areas were noticed due to logistic issues and healthcare burden. In this review, we will discuss the challenges and the future perspectives of using radiographic modalities for COVID-19 diagnosis in view of securing human lives amid the crisis.

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BetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2Tomography, X-Ray Computed

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PMID32349032
PMCPMC7434022

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