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Table 2 Characteristics of the included studies

From: Deep learning algorithm performance in contouring head and neck organs at risk: a systematic review and single-arm meta-analysis

Study ID

Country

Single center/Multicenter

Retrospective/Prospective research

Algorithm architecture name

Imaging modality

Imaging type

Internal validation

External validation

Amount of patient

Total

Dev

Test

Dai et al. (2021) [27]

America

Single center

Retrospective

MS–RCNN

MRI

3D

√

√

118

95

23

Tao et al. (2019) [28]

China

Single center

Retrospective

Boosting ResNets

CT

2D

√

–

140

120

20

Korte et al. (2021) [29]

Australia

Single center

Retrospective

–

MRI

–

√

–

41

31

10

Oktay et al. (2020) [17]

UK

Multicenter

Retrospective

Modified 3D U-Net

CT

3D

√

√

186

166

20

Ye et al. (2022) [18]

China

Multicenter

Retrospective

UaNet

CT

3D

√

√

502

176

326

Chan et al. (2019) [30]

America

Single center

Retrospective

LL-CNN

CT

3D

√

–

200

180

20

Chen et al. (2021) [23]

China

Single center

Retrospective

WBNet

CT

3D

√

√

180

150

30

Liang et al. (2019) [31]

China

Single center

Retrospective

ODS net

CT

2D

√

–

185

139

46

Kim et al. (2021) [32]

Korea

Single center

Retrospective

Modified FC-DenseNet

CT

2D

√

–

100

80

20

Gao et al. (2021) [33]

China

Single center

Retrospective

FocusNetv2

CT

3D

√

√

1164

1044

120

Nuo et al. (2018) [34]

China

Single center

Retrospective

FCNN + SRM

CT

3D

√

–

32

22

10

Fang et al. (2021) [35]

China

Single center

Retrospective

U-net

CT

2.5D

√

–

1000

800

200

V van Dijk et al. (2020) [36]

Netherlands

Single center

Retrospective

DLC

CT

3D

√

–

693

589

104

Dai et al. (2022) [37]

America

Single center

Retrospective

R-CNN

MRI

–

√

–

60

48

12

Tappeiner et al. (2019) [38]

Austria

Single center

Retrospective

HighRes3DNets

CT

3D

√

–

39

25

14

Gou et al. (2020) [39]

China

Single center

Retrospective

SCSA-Net

CT

3D

√

–

48

38

10

Nuo et al. (2019) [40]

China

Single center

Retrospective

SC-GAN-DenseNet

CT/MRI

3D

√

√

57

37

20

Zhang et al. (2021) [41]

China

Single center

Retrospective

–

CT

3D

√

–

170

150

20

Zhao et al. (2021) [42]

America

Single center

Retrospective

Weaving attention U-net

CT

3D

√

√

115

90

25

Liang et al. (2020) [43]

Not mentioned

Single center

Retrospective

–

CT

2D

√

√

48

33

15

Koo et al. (2022) [44]

America

Single center

Retrospective

–

CT

2D

√

–

864

–

–

Rooij et al. (2019) [20]

Netherlands

Single center

Retrospective

3D U-Net

CT

3D

√

–

157

142

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