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Record W4406205118 · doi:10.62617/mcb980

A study of the effectiveness of ultrasound imaging in the early detection of cartilage degeneration in the knee joint of athletes

2025· article· en· W4406205118 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Ling TANG

Bibliographic record

VenueMolecular & cellular biomechanics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicOsteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAthletesDegeneration (medical)Ultrasound imagingUltrasoundMedicineCartilageJoint (building)Knee JointArticular cartilagePhysical medicine and rehabilitationOsteoarthritisPhysical therapyRadiologyAnatomySurgeryPathologyEngineeringAlternative medicineStructural engineering

Abstract

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Knee injury is one of the common sports injuries, this paper aims to analyze the performance of ultrasound imaging technology in the assessment of early detection of athletes with knee pain, to provide a reliable assessment index for clinical diagnosis and treatment and an index for judging the efficacy. To analyze the causes of cartilage degeneration in athletes’ knee joints, and to evaluate and compare the ultrasound imaging method with the commonly used clinical assessment (Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) score, Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) score) and imaging assessment (Digital Radiography(DR), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)) for knee osteoarthritis according to the advantageous performance of ultrasound imaging technology in the examination of knee joint diseases. The correlation between ultrasound assessment and VAS score and WOMAC score, as well as DR assessment and MRI assessment were obtained, respectively. To investigate the value of ultrasonography in the evaluation of patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. The ultrasound scores of the knee were positively correlated with the VAS scores and WOMAC scores, with correlation coefficients of 0.891 and 0.902, respectively. The correlation coefficients of ultrasound ratings with DR ratings and MRI ratings were 0.876 and 0.895, respectively (both > 0.75), which were good correlations.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.009
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.028

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.227
Teacher spread0.219 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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