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ReviewFrontiers in artificial intelligence2021

Predicting Cervical Cancer Outcomes: Statistics, Images, and Machine Learning.

Wei Luo

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Review in Frontiers in artificial intelligence, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Wei LuoDepartment of Radiation Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States.
University of Kentucky · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cervical cancer is a very common and severe disease in women worldwide. Accurate prediction of its clinical outcomes will help adjust or optimize the treatment of cervical cancer and benefit the patients. Statistical models, various types of medical images, and machine learning have been used for outcome prediction and obtained promising results. Compared to conventional statistical models, machine learning has demonstrated advantages in dealing with the complexity in large-scale data and discovering prognostic factors. It has great potential in clinical application and improving cervical cancer management. However, the limitations of prediction studies and prediction models including simplification, insufficient data, overfitting and lack of interpretability, indicate that more work is needed to make clinical outcome prediction more accurate, more reliable, and more practical for clinical use.

Indexed as

cervical cancerclinical outcome predictionmachine learningmedical imageradiomicsstatistical model

Identifiers

PMID34164615
PMCPMC8215338
OpenAlexW3169068822

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Registered trials

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