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ArticleJournal of cancer research and clinical oncology2026

Comment on "Artificial intelligence construction: a review of the bridge between CT imaging features of lung ground-glass nodules adenocarcinoma and carcinogenic driver genes".

V P Abel Jopaul, M Lingaraj

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Article in Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

V P Abel JopaulDepartment of Computer Science, Sankara College of Science and Commerce, Saravanapatty, Coimbatore, India. vision28.abel@gmail.com.
M LingarajDepartment of Computer Science, Sankara College of Science and Commerce, Saravanapatty, Coimbatore, India.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Xue and Chen et al.'s review connects AI-derived CT features of lung ground-glass nodule adenocarcinoma to driver gene status. Three aspects are missing. There is no stated search strategy no databases, date range, or inclusion criteria despite drawing on more than 150 references, so readers cannot tell whether weaker or null results were sought out or just left aside. Individual studies are cited by their best accuracy or AUC figures, from approximately 0.64 to above 0.95, with no attempt to weigh them by sample size, design, or validation status. The framing does not match the evidence the review cites: the text calls AI transformative, but a systematic review it references reports a mean AUC of only ~0.64 for driver gene prediction from imaging. None of this undercuts the review's usefulness as a starting map of the field, but a stated search process, some quality-weighting of the cited numbers, and framing that matches the aggregate evidence would make it more reliable.

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Adenocarcinoma of LungArtificial IntelligenceLung NeoplasmsTomography, X-Ray ComputedHumansArtificial intelligenceCT imagingDeep learningDriver genesGround-glass nodulesLung adenocarcinomaRadiogenomics

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PMID42661070
PMCPMC13522265

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