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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2020

Clinical Trials for Artificial Intelligence in Cancer Diagnosis: A Cross-Sectional Study of Registered Trials in ClinicalTrials.gov.

Jingsi Dong, Yingcai Geng, Dan Lu, Bingjie Li, Long Tian, Dan Lin, Yonggang Zhang

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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22citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  16. Digital pathology and artificial intelligence in translational medicine and clinical practice.Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc · 2022
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  18. Requirements and reliability of AI in the medical context.Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB) · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Jingsi DongDepartment of Lung Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Yingcai GengDepartment of Lung Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Dan LuDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Bingjie LiDepartment of Lung Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Long TianDepartment of Lung Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Dan LinDepartment of Lung Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Yonggang ZhangDepartment of Periodical Press and National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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artificial intelligencecancerclinical trialClinicalTrials.govdiagnosis

Identifiers

PMID33042806
PMCPMC7522504

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