Spurious model comparisons are widespread in biomedical artificial intelligence

Tianchu Zeng, Hetu Li, Shaoshi Zhang, Yan Quan Tan, Fang Tian, Csaba Orban, Lijun An, Wanyu Che, Jingwen Cheng, Joanna Su Xian Chong, Niousha Dehestani, Zijian Dong, Xin Li, Zhizhou Li, Mervyn Jun Rui Lim, Yi Lin, Qinrui Ling, Zijie Ling, Xi Zhi Low, Sina Mansour L., Eric Kwun Kei Ng, Thuan Tinh Nguyen, Leon Qi Rong Ooi, Shreya Pande, Xing Qian, Jingxuan Ruan, Ziwen Wang, Yapei Xie, Chen Zhang, Yichi Zhang, Kaustubh Patil, Linden Parkes, Elvisha Dhamala, Sidhant Chopra, Andrew Zalesky, Avram J. Holmes, Simon Eickhoff, Juan Helen Zhou, Olivier Renaud, Nico U.F. Dosenbach, Konrad Kording, Danilo Bzdok, Thomas E. Nichols, B.T. Thomas Yeo

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@article{allodium:10.64898/2026.05.17.724301,
  title = {Spurious model comparisons are widespread in biomedical artificial intelligence},
  author = {Tianchu Zeng and Hetu Li and Shaoshi Zhang and Yan Quan Tan and Fang Tian and Csaba Orban and Lijun An and Wanyu Che and Jingwen Cheng and Joanna Su Xian Chong and Niousha Dehestani and Zijian Dong and Xin Li and Zhizhou Li and Mervyn Jun Rui Lim and Yi Lin and Qinrui Ling and Zijie Ling and Xi Zhi Low and Sina Mansour L. and Eric Kwun Kei Ng and Thuan Tinh Nguyen and Leon Qi Rong Ooi and Shreya Pande and Xing Qian and Jingxuan Ruan and Ziwen Wang and Yapei Xie and Chen Zhang and Yichi Zhang and Kaustubh Patil and Linden Parkes and Elvisha Dhamala and Sidhant Chopra and Andrew Zalesky and Avram J. Holmes and Simon Eickhoff and Juan Helen Zhou and Olivier Renaud and Nico U.F. Dosenbach and Konrad Kording and Danilo Bzdok and Thomas E. Nichols and B.T. Thomas Yeo},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.64898/2026.05.17.724301},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.17.724301}
}

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TY  - JOUR
TI  - Spurious model comparisons are widespread in biomedical artificial intelligence
AU  - Tianchu Zeng
AU  - Hetu Li
AU  - Shaoshi Zhang
AU  - Yan Quan Tan
AU  - Fang Tian
AU  - Csaba Orban
AU  - Lijun An
AU  - Wanyu Che
AU  - Jingwen Cheng
AU  - Joanna Su Xian Chong
AU  - Niousha Dehestani
AU  - Zijian Dong
AU  - Xin Li
AU  - Zhizhou Li
AU  - Mervyn Jun Rui Lim
AU  - Yi Lin
AU  - Qinrui Ling
AU  - Zijie Ling
AU  - Xi Zhi Low
AU  - Sina Mansour L.
AU  - Eric Kwun Kei Ng
AU  - Thuan Tinh Nguyen
AU  - Leon Qi Rong Ooi
AU  - Shreya Pande
AU  - Xing Qian
AU  - Jingxuan Ruan
AU  - Ziwen Wang
AU  - Yapei Xie
AU  - Chen Zhang
AU  - Yichi Zhang
AU  - Kaustubh Patil
AU  - Linden Parkes
AU  - Elvisha Dhamala
AU  - Sidhant Chopra
AU  - Andrew Zalesky
AU  - Avram J. Holmes
AU  - Simon Eickhoff
AU  - Juan Helen Zhou
AU  - Olivier Renaud
AU  - Nico U.F. Dosenbach
AU  - Konrad Kording
AU  - Danilo Bzdok
AU  - Thomas E. Nichols
AU  - B.T. Thomas Yeo
PY  - 2026
DO  - 10.64898/2026.05.17.724301
UR  - https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.17.724301
ER  -

APA

Zeng, T., Li, H., Zhang, S., Tan, Y. Q., Tian, F., Orban, C., An, L., Che, W., Cheng, J., Chong, J. S. X., Dehestani, N., Dong, Z., Li, X., Li, Z., Lim, M. J. R., Lin, Y., Ling, Q., Ling, Z., Low, X. Z., L., S. M., Ng, E. K. K., Nguyen, T. T., Ooi, L. Q. R., Pande, S., Qian, X., Ruan, J., Wang, Z., Xie, Y., Zhang, C., Zhang, Y., Patil, K., Parkes, L., Dhamala, E., Chopra, S., Zalesky, A., Holmes, A. J., Eickhoff, S., Zhou, J. H., Renaud, O., Dosenbach, N. U., Kording, K., Bzdok, D., Nichols, T. E., & Yeo, B. T. (2026). Spurious model comparisons are widespread in biomedical artificial intelligence. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.17.724301

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