Automatic detection of image manipulations in the biomedical literature.

ABSTRACT: Images in scientific papers are used to support the experimental description and the discussion of the findings since several centuries. In the field of biomedical sciences, in particular, the use of images to depict laboratory results is widely diffused, at such a level that one would not err in saying that there is barely any experimental paper devoid of images to document the attained results. With the advent of software for digital image manipulation, however, even photographic reproductions of experimental results may be easily altered by researchers, leading to an increasingly high rate of scientific papers containing unreliable images. In this paper I introduce a software pipeline to detect some of the most diffuse misbehaviours, running two independent tests on a random set of pape

SUBMITTER: Bucci EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5852055 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature