Medical Imaging AI Literature Review Skill

Write comprehensive literature reviews following a systematic 7-phase workflow.

Quick Start

1. Initialize project with three core files:

• CLAUDE.md - Writing guidelines and terminology
• IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md - Staged execution plan
• manuscript_draft.md - Main manuscript

1. Follow the 7-phase workflow (see references/WORKFLOW.md)

1. Use domain-specific templates (see references/DOMAINS.md)

Core Principles

Writing Style

• Hedging language: "may", "suggests", "appears to", "has shown promising results"
• Avoid absolutes: Never say "X is the best method"
• Citation support: Every claim needs reference
• Limitations: Each method section needs a Limitations paragraph

Required Elements

• Key Points box (3-5 bullets) after title
• Comparison table for each major section
• Performance metrics: Dice (0.XXX), HD95 (X.XX mm)
• Figure placeholders with detailed captions
• References: 80-120 typical, organized by topic

Paragraph Structure

Topic sentence (main claim)
  → Supporting evidence (citations + data)
  → Analysis (critical evaluation)
  → Transition to next paragraph

Literature Sources

Use multi-source strategy for comprehensive coverage:

| Source | Best For | Tools | |--------|----------|-------| | ArXiv | Latest DL methods, preprints | search_papers, read_paper | | PubMed | Clinical validation, peer-reviewed | pubmed_search_articles | | Zotero | Existing library, organized refs | zotero_search_items |

For MCP configuration details, see references/MCP_SETUP.md.

Standard Review Structure

markdown
# [Title]: State of the Art and Future Directions

## Key Points
- [3-5 bullets summarizing main findings]

## Abstract

## 1. Introduction
### 1.1 Clinical Background
### 1.2 Technical Challenges
### 1.3 Scope and Contributions

## 2. Datasets and Evaluation Metrics
### 2.1 Public Datasets (Table 1)
### 2.2 Evaluation Metrics

## 3. Deep Learning Methods
### 3.1 [Category 1]
### 3.2 [Category 2]
(Table 2: Method Comparison)

## 4. Downstream Applications

## 5. Commercial Products & Clinical Translation (Table 3)

## 6. Discussion
### 6.1 Current Limitations
### 6.2 Future Directions

## 7. Conclusion

## References

Method Description Template

markdown
### 3.X [Method Category]

[1-2 paragraph introduction with motivation]

**[Method Name]:** [Author] et al. [ref] proposed [method], which [innovation]:
- [Key component 1]
- [Key component 2]
Achieves Dice of X.XX on [dataset].

**Limitations:** Despite advantages, [category] methods face:
(1) [limit 1]; (2) [limit 2].

Citation Patterns

markdown
# Data citation
"...achieved Dice of 0.89 [23]"

# Method citation
"Gu et al. [45] proposed..."

# Multi-citation
"Several studies demonstrated... [12, 15, 23]"

# Comparative
"While [12] focused on..., [15] addressed..."

Reference Files

| File | Purpose | |------|---------| | references/WORKFLOW.md | Detailed 7-phase workflow | | references/TEMPLATES.md | CLAUDE.md and IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md templates | | references/DOMAINS.md | Domain-specific method categories | | references/MCP_SETUP.md | MCP server configuration | | references/QUALITY_CHECKLIST.md | Pre-submission quality checklist |