Scoping Review with Topic Modeling on the Diagnostic Criteria for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy.

ABSTRACT:

Study design

This study is a scoping review.

Objective

There is a broad variability in the definition of degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM) and no standardized set of diagnostic criteria to date.

Methods

We interrogated the Myelopathy.org database, a hand-indexed database of primary clinical studies conducted exclusively on DCM in humans between 2005-2021. The DCM inclusion criteria used in these studies were inputted into 3 topic modeling algorithms: Hierarchical Dirichlet Process (HDP), Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), and BERtopic. The emerging topics were subjected to manual labeling and interpretation.

Results

Of 1676 reports, 120 papers (7.16%) had well-defined inclusion criteria and were subjected to topic modeling. Four topics emerged from the HDP

SUBMITTER: Matsoukas S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11418695 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature