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ReviewFrontiers in medicine2021

Opportunities and Challenges for Machine Learning in Rare Diseases.

Sergio Decherchi, Elena Pedrini, Marina Mordenti, Andrea Cavalli, Luca Sangiorgi

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Review in Frontiers in medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

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

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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

5 authors.

Sergio DecherchiComputational and Chemical Biology, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy.
Elena PedriniDepartment of Rare Skeletal Disorders, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy.
Marina MordentiDepartment of Rare Skeletal Disorders, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy.
Andrea CavalliComputational and Chemical Biology, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy.
Luca SangiorgiDepartment of Rare Skeletal Disorders, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rare diseases (RDs) are complicated health conditions that are difficult to be managed at several levels. The scarcity of available data chiefly determines an intricate scenario even for experts and specialized clinicians, which in turn leads to the so called "diagnostic odyssey" for the patient. This situation calls for innovative solutions to support the decision process

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clinical decision support systemdisease registrymachine learningopen datarare disease

Identifiers

PMID34676229
PMCPMC8523988

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