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. 2022 Mar 2;51(5):20210504. doi: 10.1259/dmfr.20210504

Table 1.

Quality assessment of the selected studies using modified QUADAS tool. The ‘✓’ demonstrates a favourable response to the question and the ‘X’ demonstrates an unfavourable response to the question. The overall score reflects the quality and risk of bias for each study

Quality Assessment Questions Nishitani et al 2021 Leite et al 2021 Lee et al
2020
Zhao et al 2020 Mahdi et al 2020 Mura-matsu et al 2020 Silva et al
2020
Muresan et al 2020 Chung et al 2020 Tuzoff et al 2019 Koch et al
2019
Wirtz et al 2018 Jader et al
2018
Does the sample size consist of >100 images? × × ×
Was there an explicit inclusion/exclusion criterion defined for dataset selection? × × × × × ×
Did the investigators mention sample size calculation? × × × × × × × × × × × × ×
Is the dataset multicentric? × × × × × × × × × × ×
Was there adequate information provided for replicating study?
Did the investigators employed any validation techniques in the test data to reduce bias? × × × × × × × × × ×
Does the study mention type of specialist involve for annotation? × × × × × × × × × ×
Did the investigators report more than one performance metrics? × × ×
Did the investigators employ any data augmentation techniques? × × × × × ×
Overall score 3 6 5 5 3 4 6 5 4 4 4 2 4

High (6-8) score

Moderate (4-5) score

Low (0-3) score