Radiology Science is a peer reviewed, open access journal on radiology science and technology focusing on interdisciplinary studies of radiology combined with informatics such as Artificial Intelligence and big data for both diagnostic and treatment purposes. The journal aims to equip clinicians and physicians with biomedical engineering and computer science tools and solutions by publishing state-of-the-art studies with translational and clinical potential, and contributions from biomedical engineers and computer scientists are encouraged to demonstrate clinical potential.
Radiology Science is a peer reviewed, open access journal on radiology science and technology focusing on interdisciplinary studies of radiology combined with informatics such as Artificial Intelligence and big data for both diagnostic and treatment purposes. The journal aims to equip clinicians and physicians with biomedical engineering and computer science tools and solutions by publishing state-of-the-art studies with translational and clinical potential, and contributions from biomedical engineers and computer scientists are encouraged to demonstrate clinical potential.
Apart from diagnostic imaging methodologies and technologies and interventional radiology, the journal is especially interested in the following areas:
Radiology Science subscribes fully to the COPE code of conduct and best practice for journal editors ensuring that our editors are accountable for everything published in our journal. Our readers will always be informed about how the research is funded and our relationships with authors, reviewers and editorial board members will be influenced by COPE recommendations.
Radiology Science journal publishes as an online open access journal.
The journal is funded by GoBroad Healthcare Group:
GoBroad Healthcare Group
Address: 3-224, No 7 Changxingdiandujiakan, Fengtai District, Beijing City 100072, China
Tel: +86 10 63290612
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Editorial Office, Radiology Science
E-mail: editorialoffice@radsci-journal.org
The journal is published by Compuscript Ltd.
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Morgan Lyons
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Radiology Science publishes as an open access journal. This means all articles are available on the internet to all users immediately upon publication. See full licencing and copyright information here.
Radiology Science publishes Original Research, Letters, Clinical Trials, Reviews and Clinical Guidelines/Expert Consensus/Standards.
Hongjun Li, Professor, Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, China
Yong He, PhD, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Jie Tian, PhD, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Renhua Wu, PhD, Shantou University, Shantou, China
Haibo Xu, MD, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Longjiang Zhang, MD, Affiliated Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Ruiping Zhang, MD, Shanxi Bethune Hospital, Shanxi, China
Hairong Zheng, PhD, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzen, China
Radiology Science is a peer reviewed, open access journal on radiology science and technology focusing on interdisciplinary studies of radiology combined with informatics such as Artificial Intelligence and big data for both diagnostic and treatment purposes. The journal aims to equip clinicians and physicians with biomedical engineering and computer science tools and solutions by publishing state-of-the-art studies with translational and clinical potential, and contributions from biomedical engineers and computer scientists are encouraged to demonstrate clinical potential.
Apart from diagnostic imaging methodologies and technologies and interventional radiology, the journal is especially interested in the following areas:
Submissions to Radiology Science are made using ScholarOne, the online submission and peer review system. Registration and access are available via the →Submit Button on the →Collection banner.
Radiology Science welcomes the submission of Original Research, Letters, Clinical Trial, Review Articles, Clinical Guideline/Expert Consensus/Standards and Editorial.
To download a brief summary of author ethics and malpractice guidelines when preparing text please click here.
Authors must follow these guidelines when preparing text:
The Declaration of Helsinki (DoH) for studies involve human subjects: https://www.wma.net/what-we-do/medical-ethics/declaration-of-helsinki/
CONSORT for randomized controlled trials: http://www.consort-statement.org/consort-2010
PRISMA for Systematic Review and Meta-analyses: http://www.prisma-statement.org/
TREND for non-randomized trials: https://www.cdc.gov/trendstatement/
CARE for case reports: http://www.care-statement.org/resources/checklist
STROBE for observational studies: https://www.strobe-statement.org/index.php?id=available-checklists
STREGA for genetic association studies: http://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/strobe-strega/
SRQR for qualitative studies: https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/srqr/
STARD for diagnostic accuracy studies: http://www.stard-statement.org/
ARRIVE for animal experiments: https://www.nc3rs.org.uk/arrive-guidelines
Word limit: 4,000 words maximum including abstract but excluding references, tables and figures.
Abstract: 400 words maximum, including background, methods, results and conclusions.
References: we recommend a limit of 100 references.
Figures/Tables: There is no limit on the number of figures and tables that can be included, however we recommend 5-10 figures/ tables per article.
Description: include abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, acknowledgements, disclosure of conflicts of interest and references. Supplemental data may include additional information regarding methodology, supplemental figures or tables, or primary data sets. Graphical Abstracts and Key Points are mandatory for Original Research.
Word limit: 1,500 words maximum including abstract but excluding references, tables and figures.
Abstract: 150 words maximum, including background, methods, results and conclusions.
References: we recommend a limit of 50 references.
Figures/Tables: There is no limit on the number of figures and tables that can be included, however we recommend 2-10 figures/ tables per case report.
Description: On findings from either the clinic or the laboratory that are novel, but not necessarily definitive, scientific observations. Designed to stimulate new insight and next steps in translational or basic research. Include abstract, introduction, methods, results and discussion, acknowledgements, disclosure of conflicts of interest and references.
Word limit: 6,000 words maximum including abstract but excluding references, tables and figures.
Abstract: 400 words maximum
References: we recommend a limit of 150 references.
Figures/Tables: There is no limit on the number of figures and tables that can be included.
Description: focus on recent scientific or clinical advances in an area of broad interest to those in the field. Reviews are encouraged to be concise and critical and include appropriate references to the literature. Authors are encouraged to contact the Editor-in-Chief or the Editorial Office before submission. The journal accepts systematic review, and authors who wish to submit a systematic review (meta-analysis) need to contact the Editor-in-Chief or the Editorial Office before submission.
Word limit: 6,000 words maximum including abstract but excluding references, tables and figures.
Abstract: 400 words maximum.
References: we recommend a limit of 150 references.
Figures/Tables: There is no limit on the number of figures and tables that can be included.
Description: focus on recent scientific or clinical advances in an area of broad interest to those in the field. Reviews are encouraged to be concise and critical and include appropriate references to the literature. Authors are encouraged to contact Editor-in-Chief or the Editorial Office before submission. The journal accepts systematic review, and authors who wish to submit a systematic review (meta-analysis) need to contact Editor-in-Chief or the Editorial Office before submission.
References: we recommend a limit of 100 references.
Figures/Tables: There is no limit on the number of figures and tables that can be included,
Description: Clinical Guideline/Expert Consensus/Standards need to illustrate the origin, methodology, participant group/society etc, and we encourage such work involve multidisciplinary professionals. Please note that there should be no conflict of interests among participants. There is no word limit for such articles.
Editorials are usually invited by the Editorial Board or/and Editorial Office. Editorials are usually respond to a special issue to explain the content of the special issue, or/and to describe policy issues relevant to the journal, e.g., the launch of the journal, the change of article type etc. Editorials must be evidence based but journalistic in style, and written with an international general medical audience in mind.
Submissions to Radiology Science are made using ScholarOne, the online submission and peer review system. Registration and access are available at https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/radsci.
For each submission, the author should also provide the following Anti-plagiarism Form:
A separate title page including author names, affiliations and acknowledgements (these items should not be included in the main document).
Manuscripts must be submitted online by the corresponding author. Authors must provide an official e-mail address as all correspondence will be contacted through e-mail. In cases of submission difficulties, please direct your inquiries via e-mail to the Editorial Office at editorialoffice@radsci-journal.org.
Cover Letter
A covering Letter is required. The journal encourages the authors to take the chance to explain why the manuscript will be of interest to a journal’s readers.
The following points are recommended for inclusion:
Data Availability Statement
A Data Availability Statement tells the reader if the data behind research can be accessed and, if so, where and how.
Radiology Science requires a Data Availability Statement for the following article types: Original Research, Letter and Clinical Trial.
The journal offers the following statements and authors are required to choose one of the following:
Authors will be contacted for a Data Availability Statement after manuscript acceptance.
Figures
Authors should pay attention to the clarity and spelling of any lettering on the diagrams. All images should be supplied at 300 dpi or above, in JPG or TIF. Vector files should be in Ai, EPS or CDR format. All figures will be reduced in size to fit, wherever possible, to the width of a single column, i.e. 85 mm, or a double column, i.e. 174 mm and the height not more than 254 mm.
All illustrations should be clearly numbered with the figure number and caption clearly indicated on the bottom of the figure.
For review articles, figures taken from any published sources must obtain permission prior to publication. These figures should be cited as “Reproduced with permission from journal name, Permission number, copyright year”
Tables
Table numbers and names should be centered; table footnotes should be included at the bottom of the table; table symbols and units should be clearly designated. Authors are requested to express decimal fractions with full-stops, not commas. Tabulated ‘raw’ data should be kept to a minimum.
References
References are cited by number in the text in sequence of first appearance and listed numerically at the end of the text. The journal adheres to the Vancouver reference style. The author can use the Vancouver style that comes with the EndNote software.
Examples of style are:
Periodicals/Authored Articles
Weaver DL, Ashikaga T, Krag DN, Skelly JM, Anderson SJ, et al. Effect of occult metastases on survival in node-negative breast cancer. N Engl J Med 2011;364:412-21. [PMID: 21247310; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1008108]
Articles Authored by Organizations
Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group. Hypertension, insulin, and proinsulin in participants with impaired glucose tolerance. Hypertension 2002;40:679-86 [PMID: 12411462].
Articles – Authors and Organizations
Vallancien G, Emberton M, Harving N, van Moorselaar RJ; Alf-One Study Group. Sexual dysfunction in 1,274 European men suffering from lower urinary tract symptoms. J Urol 2003;169:2257-61. [ PMID: 12771764; DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000067940.76090.73]
Non-Anglophone Standard Journal Articles
(Title should be translated into English; state original language in parentheses)
Zhang X, Xiong H, Ji TY, Zhang YH, Wang Y. Case report of anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis in child. J Appl Clin Pediatr 2012;27:1903-7 (in Chinese).
Articles Ahead of Print
(DOI must be included)
Odibo AO. Falling stillbirth and neonatal mortality rates in twin gestation: not a reason for complacency. BJOG 2018; Epub ahead of print [PMID: 30461178; DOI: 10.1111/1471-0528.15541]
Books
Sherlock S, Dooley J. Diseases of the liver and iliary system. 9th ed. Oxford: Blackwell Sci Pub; 1993. Pp. 258-96.
Chapter in a Book
Meltzer PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations in human solid tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, editors. The genetic basis of human cancer. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2002. Pp. 93-113.
Collected Articles, Proceedings, Etc./Online Resource
FDA News Release. FDA approval brings first gene therapy to the United States. Available from: https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm574058.htm [Last accessed on 30 Oct 2017].
Conference Proceedings
Harnden P, Joffe JK, Jones WG, editors. Germ cell tumours V. Proceedings of the 5th Germ Cell Tumour Conference; 2001 Sep 13-15; Leeds, UK. New York: Springer; 2002.
Conference Paper
Christensen S, Oppacher F. An analysis of Koza’s computational effort statistic for genetic programming. In: Foster JA, Lutton E, Miller J, Ryan C, Tettamanzi AG, editors. Genetic programming. EuroGP 2002: Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Genetic Programming; 2002 Apr 3-5; Kinsale, Ireland. Berlin: Springer; 2002. Pp. 182-91.
Unpublished Articles
The journal does not accept citations to unpublished articles.
For other types of references please refer to U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Keywords
Keywords are mandatory for the journal, and please list your keywords in the file to be uploaded to Submission system together with the body of your article. The journal will extract the keywords from the file to include in the final publication.
Authors are also encouraged to select the keywords from the list in submission, which would be used by Handling Editor to identify appropriate reviewers for your submission, and those keywords will not appear in final publication.
Acknowledgments
Please provide the name and serial number of the project if the research is supported by a research fund or the relevant government departments or social organizations.
Competing Interests
Conflict of interests (or competing interests) can be defined as factors which could influence the judgment of an author, reviewer or editors, and may be personal, commercial, political, academic, or financial in nature. Competing interests that might interfere with the objective presentation of the research findings contained in the manuscript should be declared in a paragraph heading “Competing interests” (after Acknowledgment section and before References). Examples of competing interests are ownership of stock in a company, commercial grants, board membership, etc. If there is no competing interest, please use the statement “The authors declare that they have no competing interests.” For additional guidance and information on the topic of conflict of interests and competing interests please refer to The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) recommendations on author responsibility and our Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statements.
Ethics in publishing
Please see our information pages on our Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statements.
Radiology Science is a peer reviewed, open access journal on radiology science and technology focusing on interdisciplinary studies of radiology combined with informatics such as Artificial Intelligence and big data for both diagnostic and treatment purposes. The journal aims to equip clinicians and physicians with biomedical engineering and computer science tools and solutions by publishing state-of-the-art studies with translational and clinical potential, and contributions from biomedical engineers and computer scientists are encouraged to demonstrate clinical potential.
Apart from diagnostic imaging methodologies and technologies and interventional radiology, the journal is especially interested in the following areas:
Radiology Science publishes original research articles, review articles, case reports, clinical trial reports, disease treatments and Letters to the Editor.
Radiology Science is an open access journal. This means that all articles published in Radiology Science are freely and universally available online.
Submissions to Radiology Science are made using ScholarOne, the online submission and peer review system. Registration and access are available at https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/radsci.
The journal does not impose author processing charges (APCs) or any other publication fees. We do not offer remuneration for publishing papers in Radiology Science.
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Contact Radiology Science:
Editor in Chief: Hongjun Li
Address: Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, China
Email: hongjunli@radsci-journal.org
Address: 12th Floor, South Tower, Lize Soho, No. 20 Lize Road, Fengtai District, Beijing, PR China
E-mail: editorialoffice@radsci-journal.org
Contact: Compuscript Ltd.
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Tel:+353 61 472743
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ScienceOpen disciplines: | Medicine, Radiology & Imaging |
Keywords: | Medical Imaging, Artificial intelligence, Image Processing, Imaging Technology, Nuclear Medicine |
DOI: | 10.14293/S2199-1006.1.SOR-MED.CLII27H.v1 |