Spondyloarthritis and Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis: Two Different Diseases That Continue to Intersect
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Abstract
Spondyloarthritis (SpA) and diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) are different diseases obliged to converge1. SpA is an inflammatory disease involving the axial skeleton and the peripheral entheses and joints and showing a wide clinical spectrum that encompasses ankylosing spondylitis (AS), reactive arthritis (ReA), psoriatic arthritis (PsA), arthritis related to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and forms that do not meet established criteria for these definite categories and are designated as undifferentiated SpA (uSpA)2,3. Recently, classification criteria have been suggested by ASAS (Assessment in Spondyloarthritis International Society) for axial and peripheral SpA4,5. In contrast, DISH is a degenerative condition characterized by calcification and ossification of ligaments and entheseal sites in the axial and the peripheral skeleton6. Classification criteria for DISH used so far require involvement of the spine6 although extravertebral bone proliferations are frequent and characteristic and may precede axial changes7,8. An international study for the development of new criteria is in progress8. At the beginning of the story, AS and DISH resembled each other only on radiographs because of the bony outgrowths they produce in the spine1. Clinically, they were considered very different diseases. Symptoms of AS begin at a young age, frequently in second and third decades, and consist of inflammatory back pain and buttock pain, reduced spinal movement, and progressive typical postural abnormalities known as “Bechterew stoop.” In contrast, DISH was considered a disease with an asymptomatic course or with mild dorsolumbar pain and/or some restriction of spinal motion. Radiographically, DISH is characterized by “flowing mantles” of ossifications occurring in the anterior longitudinal … Address correspondence to Dr. Olivieri, Rheumatology Department of Lucania-San Carlo Hospital, Contrada Macchia Romana, 85100-Potenza, Italy. E-mail: ignazioolivieri{at}tiscalinet.it
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".