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Diagnostic performance of artificial intelligence in oral squamous cell carcinoma detection: a higher-order evidence synthesis through umbrella review and meta-meta-analysis.

Frontiers in dental medicine · Jodalli P, Vinay V, Chavan M, Shenoy R, Deshpande U, Thomas Kuriadom S, Mishra A, Shetty RM · 2026-09-08

Researchers synthesized evidence from 15 systematic reviews covering 341 studies to assess how well artificial intelligence detects oral squamous cell carcinoma, finding pooled sensitivity of 0.90 but substantial heterogeneity across studies, methodological quality concerns, and significant gaps in clinical implementation research.

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