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radiology-prereview

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Run a rigorous pre-submission mock peer review of an imaging-AI / radiomics / radiogenomics manuscript — simulate the methods, statistics, reporting-guideline, figure, citation/claim-verification, and data-sharing reviewer a top journal would assign, and surface the issues that cause desk-reject or major revision before submission. Use when the user wants a mock review, pre-submission audit, "投稿前预审/模拟审稿", "find the holes before a reviewer does", a two-pass abstract/figure/table claim audit, or a readiness check. Returns a reviewer-style report with Blocker / Major / Minor issues, each tied to the manuscript location and the reporting-guideline or methodological risk, plus an editor-style recommendation and a prioritised fix order. Never fabricates compliance or papers over a real weakness.

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Pre-submission Mock Review

Use this skill to be the harshest fair reviewer before the real one is. It reads the manuscript the way a methods-literate Radiology/Lancet-DH/Nature-Medicine reviewer would, finds the dealbreakers, and returns a reviewer-style report you can act on — so issues are fixed on your terms, not surfaced in a rejection.

Core stance

  • Adversarial but on the author's side. Hunt for the weakness a reviewer will weaponise, then hand back the fix — not just the criticism.
  • Dealbreakers first. No patient-level split, data leakage, no external validation, undefined labels, unclear segmentation, incomplete statistics, overclaiming — these decide the outcome. Triage them before cosmetics.
  • Map to the guideline. Tie each issue to the specific CLAIM/CLEAR/TRIPOD+AI/STARD/IBSI item or methodological risk a reviewer would cite (→ radiology-reporting).
  • Check the claims against the evidence. Does the abstract/Discussion overstate AUC, correlation, or retrospective results? Flag every claim the data don't support.
  • Honest readiness verdict. Give an editor-style recommendation (ready / minor / major / not yet) with the reasons — don't reassure.
  • Integrity. Never invent compliance, never wave through a real weakness to be encouraging.

When to use

  • "Mock-review my paper before I submit." / "投稿前帮我模拟审稿、做预审。"
  • "Find the holes a reviewer will find."
  • "Is this ready for [target journal], or what must I fix first?"
  • After drafting, before radiology-journal selection and submission.

When to open extra files

FileOpen when
references/review-dimensions.mdThe full set of dimensions to review (design, data, labels, leakage, stats, reporting, figures, claims, sharing)
references/dealbreakers.mdThe hard issues that trigger desk-reject / major revision, with how to detect and fix each
references/review-report-format.mdThe reviewer-report + editor-recommendation output structure
references/pre-submission-hard-gates.mdFinal submission readiness audit, rejected-paper rescue, contribution map, reviewer objection register, or when deciding whether a paper is truly ready
references/ai-radiogenomics-pitfall-audit.mdImaging-AI, foundation-model, VLM, radiomics, deep radiomics, or radiogenomics manuscripts need a targeted audit for leakage, external validation, site/scanner confounding, superficial XAI, weak clinical utility, or mechanism overclaim
references/claim-verification-gate.mdSubmission-facing abstract, Key Results, figure legend, table, graphical abstract, novelty, comparison, and numerical claims need two-pass extraction and verification

Workflow

  1. Intake — manuscript (or sections), study type, target journal/tier if known.
  2. Classify the study and load the dimensions (review-dimensions.md); pull the right guideline stack via radiology-reporting.
  3. For final readiness checks, open pre-submission-hard-gates.md and score each hard gate as PASS / CONDITIONAL / FAIL before writing softer reviewer comments.
  4. Hunt dealbreakers (dealbreakers.md) — partition hygiene, leakage, external validation, labels/reference standard, segmentation reproducibility, statistical completeness, overclaim, data/code availability.
  5. For AI/radiogenomics manuscripts, open ai-radiogenomics-pitfall-audit.md and audit the common failures that make a high-AUC paper look untrustworthy.
  6. Review each dimension — record Issue | Severity (Blocker/Major/Minor) | Location | Guideline/risk | Fix.
  7. Run two-pass claim audit for submission-facing text — abstract, Key Results, figure legends, tables, graphical abstract, and Discussion comparison/novelty claims should be extracted first, then verified via references/claim-verification-gate.md.
  8. Check claims vs evidence — abstract, Key Results, Discussion: is every claim bounded by the data?
  9. Write the report (review-report-format.md) — reviewer comments by severity + an editor-style recommendation + a prioritised fix order (what unlocks the most).

Output contract

  1. Summary assessment — 3–5 sentences: what the paper does, its real strength, its decisive weakness, and the readiness verdict.
  2. Major/Blocker comments — numbered, reviewer-style, each with location, the guideline/risk, and the concrete fix.
  3. Minor comments — numbered, smaller issues.
  4. Claims vs evidence — overclaims and the bounded rewording.
  5. Claim audit status — for final readiness: extraction complete? verification complete? unsupported/numerical/visual-table claims remaining?
  6. Hard-gate table — if final readiness is requested: contribution, data integrity, validation, statistics, reporting, figures, citation, ethics/data availability, and reviewer objection status.
  7. Editor-style recommendation — ready / minor revision / major revision / not yet, with reasons.
  8. Fix order — prioritised, routed to the relevant skill (stats, reporting, design, etc.).

Quality bar

A good mock review predicts the real reviews: it catches the dealbreakers, cites the exact item a reviewer would, separates fatal from cosmetic, and tells the author the order to fix things — without inventing compliance or softening a genuine blocker.

Handoffs

  • Checklist item-by-item audit → radiology-reporting.
  • Statistical completeness (CIs, calibration, DCA, multiplicity) → radiology-stats.
  • Leakage specifics → radiology-radiomics / radiology-deep-learning.
  • Missing external validation / reader study → radiology-design / radiology-translation.
  • Data/code/ethics gaps → radiology-data / radiology-ethics.
  • Rewriting overclaims / sections → radiology-writing / radiology-polishing.
  • Then choose the venue → radiology-journal; reviewer replies later → radiology-response.