Comparative Analysis of Ultrasound and MRI in Diagnosing Rotator Cuff Injuries in a Tertiary Care Setting
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Abstract
A BSTRACT Aim: The aim of this study is to assess the diagnostic accuracy of ultrasonography in comparison to magnetic resonance imaging for evaluating rotator cuff injuries, while also examining the reliability of ultrasonography as a primary imaging technique. Materials and Methods: A prospective observational study of 84 individuals focused on those with shoulder pain indicating rotator cuff disease. After an ultrasound, all patients had an MRI. Sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV, and diagnostic accuracy were calculated for tendon and bursal structures. Results: The findings indicate that ultrasound exhibited the highest sensitivity for identifying supraspinatus tears at 83.85%. Additionally, it showed a notable specificity in assessing subscapularis (94.74%), biceps tendon (96.65%), and bursitis-related conditions. A statistically significant correlation was observed in the evaluation of the subscapularis using MRI, with a P value of 0.048. Conclusion: The high specificity and accessibility of this imaging tool underscore its importance as a primary option, while MRI continues to play a crucial role in addressing complex or posterior shoulder pathologies.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".