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All the reviewers' concerns have been correctly addressed.
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My previous comments have been addressed satisfactorily.
Dear authors,
Several experts have reviewed your paper and found scientific merit in your work. However, there are some issues that you should address in a revised version of the text.
Best regards,
Dr Palazón-Bru (academic editor for PeerJ)
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Determination of the curative effect of nasal septoplasty is a good idea.
The study is well done.
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Determination of the curative effect of nasal septoplasty is a good idea.
The study is well done.
Interesting article
Clear experimental design
Great validity of findings
Really interesting and well written article
I commend the authors for their extensive data analysis using SNOTT-22 score for the efficacy prediction of endoscopic nasal septum deviation correction. A normogram was created as a predictive model for the efficacy of nasal surgery.The manuscript is clearly written in professional English. The manuscript is structured well 3 descriptive figures and 2 tables. It is highlighted that the surgical outcome of nasal septal correction is affected by many factors including disease related factors, treatment related factors and patient related factors. The literature is well referenced and relevent.
A retrospective ethical approved study to develop a simple and effective tool that can be used by clinicians for the efficacy prediction of endoscopic nasal septoplasty. All the patients had to fulfill and inclusion and exclusion criteria. A total of 155 patients were included in the study with 109 males and 46 females with a mean age of 36.7 years. The methodology is well descibed with adequate details.
This novel study demonstrates that the use of normogram for nasal septal deviation surgery is both effective and economical.The limitation of this study was the gender was not equally represented and its limitation to mainland China only and a small sample study.
An extensive data analysis using SNOTT-22 score for the efficacy prediction of endoscopic nasal septum deviation correction. This study demonstrates that the use of normogram for nasal septal deviation surgery is both effective and economical.The limitation of this study was the gender was not equally represented and its limitation to mainland China only and a small sample study. It is a well written original primary research manuscript within the scope of the journal.
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clinical implications should be better explain
Among limitations the authors reported that all the factors affecting the efficacy of nasal endoscopic septal deviation correction were not included in the risk factor analysis. This is a crucial pont. In addition, a morphologic classification about preoperative type of septal deviation should be added
Please add clinical and not only economical implications
- The authors proposed a prediction model for endoscopic nasal septoplasty. The idea is of interest and the use of English is acceptable.
- It is better to provide more background and literature reviews
- Article structure is ok, however some tables are displayed not too scientific. It is suggested to improve the display of their tables.
- SVM has been used in previous biomedical works such as PMID: 30822398 and PMID: 31055655, thus the authors are suggested to provide more references in this description.
- Why did the authors use SVM for feature selection, but logistic regression for classification? If the authors also use SVM for classification purpose, was the performance lower than logistic regression?
- When showing the patient characteristics, it is better to show p-value together to see the significant differences between two classes
- It is also better if the authors could report the training and validation cohort separately in Table 1.
- Measurement metrics or cross-validation had been used in different works e.g., PMID: 31277574 and PMID: 31380767. Therefore, it is important to refer more works to attract broader readership on this paper.
- It is important if the authors could validate their model on an external dataset.
- The authors should compare their performance results with the previous works on the same problem.
- How did the authors rank the order of features in their RFE method?
- From Fig. 2, it is easy to say that the model has overfitting (training performance was better than testing one). The authors should address this problem and discuss some solutions on it.
- In Fig. 2C, the legends stand in front of the curves, it makes the readers cannot see the curves.
- What are "All" and "None" lines in Fig. 2C?
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