[Citation needed] Data usage and citation practices in medical imaging conferences

Théo Sourget, Ahmet Akkoç, Stinna Winther, Christine Lyngbye Galsgaard, Amelia Jiménez Sánchez, Dovile Juodelyte, Caroline Petitjean, Veronika Cheplygina

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Abstract

Medical imaging papers often focus on methodology, but the quality of the algorithms and the validity of the conclusions are highly dependent on the datasets used. As creating datasets requires a lot of effort, researchers often use publicly available datasets, there is however no adopted standard for citing the datasets used in scientific papers, leading to difficulty in tracking dataset usage. In this work, we present two open-source tools we created that could help with the detection of dataset usage, a pipeline1 using OpenAlex and full-text analysis, and a PDF annotation software2 used in our study to manually label the presence of datasets. We applied both tools on a study of the usage of 20 publicly
available medical datasets in papers from MICCAI and MIDL. We compute the proportion and the evolution between 2013 and 2023 of 3 types of presence in a paper: cited, mentioned in the full text, cited and mentioned. Our findings demonstrate the concentration of the usage of a limited set of datasets. We also highlight different citing practices, making the automation of tracking difficult.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL)
Publication date2024
Pages1-22
Publication statusPublished - 2024

Keywords

  • data re-use
  • annotation
  • Bibliometrics
  • citations
  • datasets
  • medical imaging

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