Abstract

A great deal of the images found in scientific publications are retouched, reused, or composed to enhance the quality of the presentation. In most instances, these edits are benign and help the reader better understand the material in a paper. However, some edits are instances of scientific misconduct and undermine the integrity of the presented research. Determining the legitimacy of edits made to scientific images is an open problem that no current technology can perform satisfactorily in a fully automated fashion. It thus remains up to human experts to inspect images as part of the peer-review process. Nonetheless, image analysis technologies promise to become helpful to experts to perform such an essential yet arduous task. Therefore, we introduce SILA, a system that makes image analysis tools available to reviewers and editors in a principled way. Further, SILA is the first human-in-the-loop end-to-end system …

Date

2022

Authors

Daniel Moreira, João Phillipe Cardenuto, Ruiting Shao, Sriram Baireddy, Davide Cozzolino, Diego Gragnaniello, Wael Abd-Almageed, Paolo Bestagini, Stefano Tubaro, Anderson Rocha, Walter Scheirer, Luisa Verdoliva, Edward Delp

Journal

Scientific Reports

Volume

12

Issue

1

Pages

18306

Publisher

Nature Publishing Group UK