Table 4.
Quality assessment.
Source | Risk of bias | Applicability concerns | |||||||||
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Patient selection | Index test | Reference standard | Flow and timing | Patient selection | Index test | Reference standard | |||||
Was the statistical management adequate? | Were the inclusion/exclusion criteria specified? | Was the type of study (retrospective or prospective) specified? | Were the imaging acquisition protocol and the segmentation method(s) detailed? | Was the image processing approach detailed? | Was the validation independent (i.e., no internal)? | Was the reference standard adequate? | Was there an appropriate interval between index test and reference standard? | ||||
Chetan et al. (1) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Unclear | Yes | Yes | Unclear |
Parmar et al. (2) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Unclear | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Sun et al. (3) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Unclear | Unclear | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Ling et al. (4) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Unclear | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Coudray et al. (5) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | Yes | Yes | Unclear |
Xu et al. (6) | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Unclear | Unclear | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Baldwin et al. (7) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Unclear | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Schroers et al. (8) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Unclear | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Wang et al. (9) | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Unclear | Unclear | Yes | Yes | Unclear |
Leleu et al. (10) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Ann et al. (11) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | Unclear | Yes | Yes | Unclear |
Cong et al. (12) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Unclear | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Botta et al. (13) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | Yes | Yes | Unclear |
Botta et al. (13) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | Yes | Yes | Unclear |
Wei et al. (14) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Unclear | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Khorrami et al. (15) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Unclear | Unclear | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Kirienko et al. (16) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Unclear | Unclear | Yes | Yes | Unclear |
Rossi et al. (17) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Unclear | Yes | Yes | Unclear |
Chai et al. (18) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Wang et al. (19) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Unclear | Unclear | Yes | Yes | Unclear |