“…The majority of the studies (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20) (76.5%) used the diagnosis of a specific disease as the outcome, only four studies (17, 18, 19, 21) tested on the treatment outcome. In the diagnostic studies, three studies (7, 12, 14) used image features to categorize magnetic resonance images (MRIs), two (6, 13) used face photos to predict acromegaly, two (15, 20) predicted growth home deficiency using serum proteins, two (10, 11) used histological spectrum to predict histology diagnosis, one (9) used serum proteins to predict pituitary adenoma and one (8) predicted surgical phase using videos. In studies on treatment outcomes, one study (17) predicted poor early postoperative outcome, one (18) predicted gross-total resection, one (19) predicted response to somatostatin analogs and one (21) predicted growth after growth hormone treatment.…”