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ReviewJournal of imaging2025

A Systematic Review of Medical Image Quality Assessment.

H M S S Herath, H M K K M B Herath, Nuwan Madusanka, Byeong-Il Lee

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Review in Journal of imaging, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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21citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

H M S S HerathDepartment of Industry 4.0 Convergence Bionics Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan 48513, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0009-0008-9702-5576
H M K K M B HerathDepartment of Industry 4.0 Convergence Bionics Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan 48513, Republic of Korea.
Nuwan MadusankaDigital Healthcare Research Center, Pukyong National University, Busan 48513, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-7982-1036
Byeong-Il LeeDepartment of Industry 4.0 Convergence Bionics Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan 48513, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-1574-7145

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Medical image quality assessment (MIQA) is vital in medical imaging and directly affects diagnosis, patient treatment, and general clinical results. Accurate and high-quality imaging is necessary to make accurate diagnoses, efficiently design treatments, and consistently monitor diseases. This review summarizes forty-two research studies on diverse MIQA approaches and their effects on performance in diagnostics, patient results, and efficiency in the process. It contrasts subjective (manual assessment) and objective (rule-driven) evaluation methods, underscores the growing promise of machine intelligence and machine learning (ML) in MIQA automation, and describes the existing MIQA challenges. AI-powered tools are revolutionizing MIQA with automated quality checks, noise reduction, and artifact removal, producing consistent and reliable imaging evaluation. Enhanced image quality is demonstrated in every examination to improve diagnostic precision and support decision making in the clinic. However, challenges still exist, such as variability in quality and variability in human ratings and small datasets hindering standardization. These must be addressed with better-quality data, low-cost labeling, and standardization. Ultimately, this paper reinforces the need for high-quality medical imaging and the potential of MIQA with the power of AI. It is crucial to advance research in this area to advance healthcare.

Indexed as

artificial intelligence (AI)imaging modalitiesmachine learning (ML)medical image quality assessment (MIQA)objective assessmentsubjective assessment

Identifiers

PMID40278016
PMCPMC12027808

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