Table 2.
QUADAS domain | Risk of bias questions |
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Domain 1: Patient selection |
Study design (retrospective vs prospective) Patient selection Clear description of selection criteria Case description |
Domain 2: Index test |
Image acquisition description Image analysis description Region of interest and data extraction |
Doman 3: Reference test |
Tumor classification quality Treatment details description |
Domain 4: Flow and timing | Timing of treatment and imaging described |
Domain 5: Data analysis, processing, and reporting |
Withdrawals and exclusions explained Statistical tests reported and sufficient Data availability |
The quality of the reporting for each study was assessed in five domains. For each domain, one to three aspects were scored as having low, medium, or high risk of bias. A detailed explanation is provided in Supplementary Materials