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ReviewOncogene2021

How artificial intelligence might disrupt diagnostics in hematology in the near future.

Wencke Walter, Claudia Haferlach, Niroshan Nadarajah, Ines Schmidts, Constanze Kühn, Wolfgang Kern, Torsten Haferlach

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Review in Oncogene, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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34citing 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

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Hematopathology Practice in the Digital Era: What has Changed?International journal of laboratory hematology · 2026
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  17. AI in wine and haematology.Bone marrow transplantation · 2024
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  20. Artificial Intelligence in Bone Marrow Histological Diagnostics: Potential Applications and Challenges.Pathobiology : journal of immunopathology, molecular and cellular biology · 2024
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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.

Wencke WalterMLL Munich Leukemia Laboratory, Munich, Germany.
Claudia HaferlachMLL Munich Leukemia Laboratory, Munich, Germany.
Niroshan NadarajahMLL Munich Leukemia Laboratory, Munich, Germany.
Ines SchmidtsMLL Munich Leukemia Laboratory, Munich, Germany.
Constanze KühnMLL Munich Leukemia Laboratory, Munich, Germany.
Wolfgang KernMLL Munich Leukemia Laboratory, Munich, Germany.
Torsten HaferlachMLL Munich Leukemia Laboratory, Munich, Germany. torsten.haferlach@mll.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0196-2837

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) is about to make itself indispensable in the health care sector. Examples of successful applications or promising approaches range from the application of pattern recognition software to pre-process and analyze digital medical images, to deep learning algorithms for subtype or disease classification, and digital twin technology and in silico clinical trials. Moreover, machine-learning techniques are used to identify patterns and anomalies in electronic health records and to perform ad-hoc evaluations of gathered data from wearable health tracking devices for deep longitudinal phenotyping. In the last years, substantial progress has been made in automated image classification, reaching even superhuman level in some instances. Despite the increasing awareness of the importance of the genetic context, the diagnosis in hematology is still mainly based on the evaluation of the phenotype. Either by the analysis of microscopic images of cells in cytomorphology or by the analysis of cell populations in bidimensional plots obtained by flow cytometry. Here, AI algorithms not only spot details that might escape the human eye, but might also identify entirely new ways of interpreting these images. With the introduction of high-throughput next-generation sequencing in molecular genetics, the amount of available information is increasing exponentially, priming the field for the application of machine learning approaches. The goal of all the approaches is to allow personalized and informed interventions, to enhance treatment success, to improve the timeliness and accuracy of diagnoses, and to minimize technically induced misclassifications. The potential of AI-based applications is virtually endless but where do we stand in hematology and how far can we go?

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AlgorithmsArtificial IntelligenceHematologyHumansMachine Learning

Identifiers

PMID34103684
PMCPMC8225509

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