Prognostic scores for survival as decisional support for surgery in spinal metastases: a performance assessment systematic review.

Steven Smeijers Bart Depreitere

Published in: European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society (2021)

The SORG Nomogram and machine learning algorithms outline superior performance in survival prediction for surgery in spinal metastases. Further improvement by comparative validation in large multicenter, prospective cohorts can still be obtained. Given the heterogeneity of spinal metastases, superior methodology of development and validation is key in improving future machine learning systems.

Keyphrases

machine learning
systematic review
spinal cord
minimally invasive
coronary artery bypass
artificial intelligence
big data
deep learning
surgical site infection
meta analyses
single cell
randomized controlled trial
lymph node metastasis
squamous cell carcinoma
spinal cord injury
atrial fibrillation
double blind