Patrece L Joseph, Carolina Gonçalves, Janelle Applewhite, Sasha A Fleary
Examining provider anticipatory guidance for adolescents' preventive health: A latent class approach
Journal of pediatric nursing
nasopharyngeal carcinoma significant health challenge particularly prevalent southeast asia north africa mri preferred diagnostic tool npc due superior soft tissue contrast accurate segmentation npc mri crucial effective treatment planning prognosis conducted search across pubmed embase web science inception 20 march 2024 adhering prisma 2020 guidelines eligibility criteria focused studies utilizing dl npc segmentation adults via mri data extraction metaanalysis conducted evaluate performance dl models primarily measured dice scores assessed methodological quality using claim quadas2 tools statistical analysis performed using random effects models analysis incorporated 17 studies demonstrating pooled dice score 78 dl models 95 confidence interval 74 83 indicating moderate high segmentation accuracy dl models significant heterogeneity publication bias observed among included studies findings reveal dl models particularly convolutional neural networks offer moderately accurate npc segmentation mri advancement holds potential enhancing npc management necessitating research toward integration clinical practice