The journal retracts the 29 October 2021 article cited above.
Following publication, the publisher uncovered evidence that false identities were used in the peer-review process. The assignment of fake reviewers was confirmed by an investigation, conducted in accordance with Frontiers' policies and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines. Given the concerns, the editors no longer have confidence in the findings presented in the article. UPDATE (30 July 2024): This notice is to alert readers of this matter, it does not imply involvement of the co-authors.
This retraction was approved by the Chief Editors of Frontiers in Public Health and the Chief Executive Editor of Frontiers. The authors have not responded to correspondence regarding this retraction.
Summary
Keywords
Convolutional Neural Network, PatchShuffle, deep learning, Stochastic pooling, Grad-CAM
Citation
Frontiers Editorial Office (2024) Retraction: PSCNN: PatchShuffle convolutional neural network for COVID-19 explainable diagnosis. Front. Public Health 11:1358370. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1358370
Received
19 December 2023
Accepted
21 December 2023
Published
03 January 2024
Approved by
Paolo Vineis, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Volume
11 - 2023
Updates
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