Living Review & automated surveillance

The observatory is designed to remain current through scheduled, transparent, human-in-the-loop updates.

Step 1
Quarterly trigger
Every 3 months the system runs the systematic-review search across all configured databases.
Step 2
Multi-source retrieval
PubMed/MEDLINE, Europe PMC, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, IEEE Xplore. Scopus, Web of Science and Embase remain manual/API-dependent where institutional access is required.
Step 3
Deduplicate
Records merged by DOI, PMID, title similarity, and author/year heuristics.
Step 4
AI screening
Each record is screened against the inclusion criteria and tagged likely include / maybe / likely exclude with a written rationale.
Step 5
Human approval
Likely/maybe records enter the admin review queue. AI-extracted fields propose values with confidence and source quotes; nothing publishes without human sign-off.

No auto-publishing. AI-extracted data is always marked pending review until a human reviewer confirms it. Every change is captured in the update history below.

Search strategy

Core concepts combined with AND across all sources:

Disease

vestibular schwannoma · acoustic neuroma · acoustic neurinoma · 8th/eighth cranial nerve tumor

Modelling

prediction · prognostic · diagnostic · machine learning · deep learning · neural network · random forest · SVM · XGBoost · LASSO · logistic / Cox regression · multivariable analysis

Update history

A transparent log of every search run, screening decision, and admin action.

Date	Databases	Found	Screened	Added	Pending	Notes
11 May 2026	MEDLINE, Embase, WoS, Scopus, IEEE	1284	1284	54	0	Initial systematic review baseline.

Next scheduled search: August 2026.