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ArticleFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2021

Lumbar Disc Herniation Automatic Detection in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Based on Deep Learning.

Jen-Yung Tsai, Isabella Yu-Ju Hung, Yue Leon Guo, Yih-Kuen Jan, Chih-Yang Lin, Tiffany Ting-Fang Shih, Bang-Bin Chen, Chi-Wen Lung

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Article in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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37citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

37 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 74 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

8 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Jen-Yung TsaiDepartment of Digital Media Design, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan.
Isabella Yu-Ju HungDepartment of Nursing, Chung Hwa University of Medical Technology, Tainan, Taiwan.
Yue Leon GuoEnvironmental and Occupational Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University (NTU) and NTU Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Yih-Kuen JanRehabilitation Engineering Lab, Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States.
Chih-Yang LinDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Yuan Ze University, Chung-Li, Taiwan.
Tiffany Ting-Fang ShihDepartment of Medical Imaging and Radiology, National Taiwan University (NTU) Hospital and NTU College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
Bang-Bin ChenDepartment of Medical Imaging and Radiology, National Taiwan University (NTU) Hospital and NTU College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
Chi-Wen LungRehabilitation Engineering Lab, Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States.
Asia University · TWNational Taiwan University Hospital · TWChung Hwa University of Medical Technology · TWNational Taiwan University · TWUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · USYuan Ze University · TW

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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data augmentationlow back painmedical imageobject detectionYOLO

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PMID34490222
PMCPMC8416668
OpenAlexW3194729302

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