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ReviewAnnals of laboratory medicine2025

Advancing Laboratory Medicine Practice With Machine Learning: Swift yet Exact.

Jiwon You, Hyeon Seok Seok, Sollip Kim, Hangsik Shin

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Review in Annals of laboratory medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 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

13 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

4 authors.

Jiwon YouDepartment of Digital Medicine, Brain Korea 21 Project, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-9036-8400
Hyeon Seok SeokDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Graduate School, Chonnam National University, Yeosu, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8144-2190
Sollip KimDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0474-5897
Hangsik ShinDepartment of Digital Medicine, Brain Korea 21 Project, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3353-0310

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Machine learning (ML) is currently being widely studied and applied in data analysis and prediction in various fields, including laboratory medicine. To comprehensively evaluate the application of ML in laboratory medicine, we reviewed the literature on ML applications in laboratory medicine published between February 2014 and March 2024. A PubMed search using a search string yielded 779 articles on the topic, among which 144 articles were selected for this review. These articles were analyzed to extract and categorize related fields within laboratory medicine, research objectives, specimen types, data types, ML models, evaluation metrics, and sample sizes. Sankey diagrams and pie charts were used to illustrate the relationships between categories and the proportions within each category. We found that most studies involving the application of ML in laboratory medicine were designed to improve efficiency through automation or expand the roles of clinical laboratories. The most common ML models used are convolutional neural networks, multilayer perceptrons, and tree-based models, which are primarily selected based on the type of input data. Our findings suggest that, as the technology evolves, ML will rise in prominence in laboratory medicine as a tool for expanding research activities. Nonetheless, expertise in ML applications should be improved to effectively utilize this technology.

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Laboratories, ClinicalMachine LearningHumansNeural Networks, ComputerArtificial intelligenceClinical laboratory testsLaboratory medicineMachine learning

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PMID39587856
PMCPMC11609717

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