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TransRate: reference-free quality assessment of de novo transcriptome assemblies Open
TransRate is a tool for reference-free quality assessment of de novo transcriptome assemblies. Using only the sequenced reads and the assembly as input, we show that multiple common artifacts of de novo transcriptome assembly can be readil…
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Apps to improve diet, physical activity and sedentary behaviour in children and adolescents: a review of quality, features and behaviour change techniques Open
Popular commercial apps to improve diet, physical activity and sedentary behaviour in children and adolescents had moderate quality overall, scored higher in terms of functionality. Most apps incorporated some BCTs and higher quality apps …
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Radiomics in predicting treatment response in non-small-cell lung cancer: current status, challenges and future perspectives Open
Objectives Radiomics is the extraction of quantitative data from medical imaging, which has the potential to characterise tumour phenotype. The radiomics approach has the capacity to construct predictive models for treatment response, esse…
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Impact of clinical registries on quality of patient care and clinical outcomes: A systematic review Open
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Tracking tumor biology with radiomics: A systematic review utilizing a radiomics quality score Open
In this study, we performed a systematic literature search linking radiomics to tumor biology. All but two studies (n = 39) revealed that radiomic features derived from ultrasound, CT, PET and/or MR are significantly associated with one or…
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Multilingual Twitter Sentiment Classification: The Role of Human Annotators Open
What are the limits of automated Twitter sentiment classification? We analyze a large set of manually labeled tweets in different languages, use them as training data, and construct automated classification models. It turns out that the qu…
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Calculating Polygenic Risk Scores (PRS) in UK Biobank: A Practical Guide for Epidemiologists Open
A polygenic risk score estimates the genetic risk of an individual for some disease or trait, calculated by aggregating the effect of many common variants associated with the condition. With the increasing availability of genetic data in l…
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A suggestion for quality assessment in systematic reviews of observational studies in nutritional epidemiology Open
The results of this study suggest that it is more reasonable to control for quality level by performing subgroup analysis according to study design rather than by using HQ based on the NOS quality assessment tool.
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Exploring Applications of Radiomics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Head and Neck Cancer: A Systematic Review Open
BackgroundRadiomics has been widely investigated for non-invasive acquisition of quantitative textural information from anatomic structures. While the vast majority of radiomic analysis is performed on images obtained from computed tomogra…
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Quality and accuracy of online nutrition-related information: a systematic review of content analysis studies Open
Objective: This systematic review aimed to summarise the level of quality and accuracy of nutrition-related information on websites and social media and determine if quality and accuracy varied between websites and social media or publishe…
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Assessment of Reliability of YouTube Videos on Orthodontics Open
Owing to the lack of peer-review process and pre-upload scientific evaluation process, videos on YouTube can lead the public to misinformation.
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Quality control strategies for brain MRI segmentation and parcellation: Practical approaches and recommendations - insights from the Maastricht study Open
Quality control of brain segmentation is a fundamental step to ensure data quality. Manual quality control strategies are the current gold standard, although these may be unfeasible for large neuroimaging samples. Several options for autom…
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COVID-19 prevention and treatment information on the internet: a systematic analysis and quality assessment Open
Objective To evaluate the quality of information regarding the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 available to the general public from all countries. Design Systematic analysis using the ‘Ensuring Quality Information for Patients’ (EQIP)…
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RAN4IQA: Restorative Adversarial Nets for No-Reference Image Quality Assessment Open
Inspired by the free-energy brain theory, which implies that human visual system (HVS) tends to reduce uncertainty and restore perceptual details upon seeing a distorted image, we propose restorative adversarial net (RAN), a GAN-based mode…
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Assessment of the Quality, Content, and Readability of Freely Available Online Information for Patients Regarding Diabetic Retinopathy Open
These findings suggest that freely available information online about diabetic retinopathy varies by source but is generally of low quality. The material presented seems difficult to interpret and exceeds the recommended reading level for …
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Development of a Methodological Quality Criteria List for Observational Studies: The Observational Study Quality Evaluation Open
Background: Existing study quality and risk of bias lists for observational studies have important disadvantages. For this reason, a comprehensive widely applicable quality assessment tool for observational studies was developed. Methods: …
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Improving Factor Score Estimation Through the Use of Observed Background Characteristics Open
A challenge facing nearly all studies in the psychological sciences is how to best combine multiple items into a valid and reliable score to be used in subsequent modeling. The most ubiquitous method is to compute a mean of items, but more…
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Use of AMSTAR-2 in the methodological assessment of systematic reviews: protocol for a methodological study Open
The results of this study will identify any gaps in the use of AMSTAR-2 and important bibliometric features, such as active researchers and journals, provide guidance to researchers in various healthcare areas (such as, traditional Chinese…
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The Revised <span>METRIQ</span> Score: A Quality Evaluation Tool for Online Educational Resources Open
Background With the rapid proliferation of online medical education resources, quality evaluation is increasingly critical. The Medical Education Translational Resources: Impact and Quality ( METRIQ ) study evaluated the METRIQ ‐8 quality …
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Radiomics Models for Predicting Microvascular Invasion in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Systematic Review and Radiomics Quality Score Assessment Open
Preoperative prediction of microvascular invasion (MVI) is of importance in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patient treatment management. Plenty of radiomics models for MVI prediction have been proposed. This study aimed to elucidate the ro…
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3D Panoramic Virtual Reality Video Quality Assessment Based on 3D Convolutional Neural Networks Open
Virtual reality (VR), a new type of simulation and interaction technology, has aroused widespread attention and research interest. It is necessary to evaluate the VR quality and provide a standard for the rapidly developing technology. To …
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Quality Improvement in Cystectomy Care with Enhanced Recovery ( <span>QUICCER</span> ) study Open
Objectives To determine if patients managed with a cystectomy enhanced recovery pathway ( CERP ) have improved quality of care after radical cystectomy ( RC ), as defined by a decrease in length of hospital stay ( LOS ) without an increase…
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Effectiveness of Pharmacist-led Anticoagulation Management on Clinical Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Open
Objectives: We performed this systematic review and meta-analysis to confirm whether patients benefit more from pharmacist-led anticoagulation management than other models. Methods: We searched PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library and referenc…
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Thoughts on how to improve the quality of multicentre patch test studies Open
Summary Multicentre patch test studies ( MPTS s) can contribute useful information for diagnostic and preventive measures. The aim of the present paper is to propose how to perform high‐quality MPTS s. To this end, factors of significance …
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Evaluation of the Quality, Accuracy, and Readability of Online Patient Resources for the Management of Articular Cartilage Defects Open
Objective Patients commonly use the Internet to obtain their health-related information. The purpose of this study was to investigate the quality, accuracy, and readability of online patient resources for the management of articular cartil…
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A systematic literature review of open source software quality assessment models Open
In conclusion, our study will be a valuable contribution to the community and helps the quality assessment model developers in formulating newer models and also to the practitioners (software evaluators) in selecting suitable OSS in the mi…
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Quality and readability assessment of websites related to recurrent respiratory papillomatosis Open
Objective Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) is a rare disease for which a limited number of information sources for patients exist. The role of the Internet in the patient–physician relationship is increasing. More and more patien…
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Evaluation of Quality and Readability of Online Health Information on High Blood Pressure Using DISCERN and Flesch-Kincaid Tools Open
High Blood Pressure (BP) is a vital factor in the development of cardiovascular diseases worldwide. For more than a decade now, patients search for quality and easy-to-read Online Health Information (OHI) for symptoms, preventions, therapy…
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Consolidated Reporting Guidelines for Prognostic and Diagnostic Machine Learning Modeling Studies: Development and Validation Open
Background The reporting of machine learning (ML) prognostic and diagnostic modeling studies is often inadequate, making it difficult to understand and replicate such studies. To address this issue, multiple consensus and expert reporting …
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Quality assessment of nutrition coverage in the media: a 6-week survey of five popular UK newspapers Open
Objectives To investigate the quality of nutrition articles in popular national daily newspapers in the UK and to identify important predictors of article quality. Setting Newspapers are a primary source of nutrition information for the pu…