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A reproducible account of how the live pediatric- and prostate-cancer pipelines turn PubMed records into deterministic evidence scores, structured AI interpretation, and discovery rankings.

Standard standard-v1.0 / prostate-standard-v1.0 AI scoring pediatric-cancer-ai-v1.0 / prostate-cancer-ai-v1.0 Prompt pediatric-cancer-ai-review-v1.0 / prostate-cancer-ai-review-v1.0 Model gpt-5.6
Research prioritization—not clinical evidence. A high score identifies a paper for closer review. It does not prove efficacy, safety, causality, reproducibility, or clinical usefulness and is not medical advice.
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END TO END

The production pipeline

Every stage corresponds to code executed by the live disease-specific daily runners.

PubMed literatureDisease-specific retrieval
IngestionMetadata, abstract, source fingerprint
Standard analysisSix deterministic components
AI GuruFive structured dimensions
Final score55% standard + 45% AI
Discovery rankingFinal score with standard fallback
Freshness tracking. Source and score fingerprints cause changed records to be rescored, and replaced scores are retained in history tables. Recency alone does not currently trigger rescoring as a paper ages.
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DETERMINISTIC LAYER

Standard Analysis

Rule-based scoring uses the title, abstract, and publication date. It does not use citation counts, journal prestige, or AI.

STANDARD SCORES = 0.30D + 0.20H + 0.20T + 0.10N + 0.10R + 0.10A

D study design · H human relevance · T therapeutic relevance · N sample size · R recency · A abstract completeness

Study design30% of Standard Score0–100

Plain English. The engine searches the title and abstract for ordered study-design phrases. The first matching rule determines classification, evidence level, design score, and human score.

ClassificationLevelDesignHuman
Meta-analysis110075
Systematic review19575
Randomized controlled trial1100100
Clinical trial290100
Prospective cohort28095
Retrospective cohort / case-control37090
Cross-sectional36085
Practice guideline27590
Narrative review35570
Case series / report445 / 3085 / 80
Preclinical / translational5 / 435 / 5020 / 55
Unspecified human / unspecified3 / 555 / 2585 / 35

Limitation: this is ordered phrase matching, not expert study appraisal. It does not assess bias, endpoints, controls, preregistration, effect size, or replication.

score_*_cancer_standard.py → classify_study()

Human relevance20% of Standard Score20–100

Plain English. Assigned with study design. Human trials receive the highest values; exclusively preclinical records receive the lowest.

Pediatric terms include children, pediatric, adolescent, and infant. Prostate terms include men, male, cohort, and registry.

Limitation: a human-associated word does not establish interventional, causal, adequately powered, or clinically relevant evidence.

Therapeutic relevance20% of Standard Score10–100

Algorithm. Begin at 10. Add configured points once for each therapy term found in the title or abstract. A title match also adds min(5, points × 0.35). Cap at 100.

Examples: immunotherapy +14; treatment +12; intervention +10; drug +8; response +6; biomarker +5. Prostate scoring adds androgen deprivation, PSMA, radioligand, PARP inhibitor, abiraterone, and related terms.

Limitation: vocabulary presence is not evidence that an intervention works. Overlapping and negated terms are not semantically resolved.

score_*_cancer_standard.py → therapeutic_score()

Sample size10% of Standard Score20–100

Patterns detect forms such as N = 120, 120 patients, and enrolled 120. When several values match, the largest is used.

2+ 2010+ 3020+ 4050+ 50100+ 60200+ 70500+ 801k+ 9010k+ 100

No detected sample: reviews and guidelines receive 60; other records receive 20.

Limitation: the largest matching number may not be total enrollment, and sample size alone does not establish rigor.

Recency10% of Standard Score25–100

age = max(0, today − min(publication date, today)) / 365.25

≤1y 100≤2y 90≤3y 80≤5y 65≤10y 45>10y 25

Missing dates receive 25. Future dates are capped at zero age, score 100, and flagged.

Limitation: newer is not necessarily stronger. Stored scores are not refreshed solely because time passes.

Abstract completeness10% of Standard Score0–100
0 words 01–24 2025–74 4075–149 65150–249 85250+ 100

Limitation: this measures length—not writing quality, completeness, truth, or scientific rigor.

A 85–100B 70–84.99C 55–69.99D below 55Grades describe the deterministic score—not clinical evidence and not the blended rank.
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STRUCTURED INTERPRETATION

AI Guru Analysis

The AI receives a bounded evidence packet and returns a validated structure. Application code—not the model—applies the composite weights.

AI SCOREAI = 0.20N + 0.30T + 0.20M + 0.20X + 0.10O

N novelty · T therapeutic potential · M mechanism · X translation · O overlooked value

Runtime configuration

Provider
OpenAI
API
Responses / structured parse
Model
gpt-5.6
Abstract limit
12,000 characters
Attempts
1 + up to 3 retries
Temperature / reasoning
Not explicitly set
Novelty · 20%

How conceptually new or differentiating the reported idea appears. Recency alone is not novelty.

Therapeutic potential · 30%

Whether the work plausibly points toward treatment, prevention, selection, resistance, toxicity reduction, or outcomes.

Mechanism · 20%

How clearly the supplied record supports a biologically coherent mechanism.

Translation · 20%

How close the work appears to meaningful human testing or clinical use.

Overlooked value · 10%

Potential value in early, indirect, cross-disciplinary, negative, repurposing, or small-population evidence.

No invented score bands. The current prompt defines 0–100 outputs and qualitative criteria but does not define calibrated low, medium, and high numeric anchors.
What we ask the AI Guru — system prompt
You are a cautious biomedical literature reviewer specializing in {{DISEASE}},
{{SPECIALTY}}, and therapeutic discovery.

Review only the evidence provided in the PubMed title, abstract, metadata, and
deterministic evidence grade. Do not invent methods, results, sample sizes,
mechanisms, or clinical outcomes that are absent from the supplied record.

Score each dimension from 0 to 100:

1. novelty_score
   How conceptually new or differentiating the reported idea appears from the
   supplied record. Do not assume novelty merely because a paper is recent.

2. therapeutic_potential_score
   Whether the work plausibly points toward treatment, prevention, treatment
   selection, overcoming resistance, reducing toxicity, or improving outcomes.

3. mechanism_score
   How clearly the supplied record supports a biologically coherent mechanism.
   Mechanistic speculation without supporting evidence should score lower.

4. translational_score
   How close the work appears to meaningful human testing or clinical use.
   Human trials generally score above observational, translational, animal, or
   in-vitro work, but weak human evidence should not automatically score high.

5. overlooked_value_score
   Whether the paper may contain a useful therapeutic signal that could be
   missed because it is early, indirect, cross-disciplinary, negative,
   repurposing-oriented, or focused on a small population.

Be conservative. Missing abstracts or insufficient evidence should reduce
confidence and scores. This is research prioritization, not medical advice.

The one-sentence summary must describe what the paper actually reports.
The therapeutic hypothesis must clearly distinguish evidence from inference.
The reasoning should be concise and explain the five scores.
Strengths and limitations should be short factual phrases.
Suggested tags should be concise lowercase research tags.

This is the live template with only disease identity parameterized. Pediatric uses “pediatric cancer, pediatric oncology.” Prostate uses “prostate cancer, genitourinary oncology” and additionally directs attention to disease state, androgen-receptor biology, treatment resistance, metastatic progression, molecular selection, and radioligand therapy.

What we send for each paper — user template
Review this {{DISEASE}} PubMed record.

PMID: {{PMID}}
Title: {{TITLE}}
Journal: {{JOURNAL}}
Publication date: {{PUBLICATION_DATE}}
Keywords: {{KEYWORDS_JSON}}
MeSH terms: {{MESH_TERMS_JSON}}
Abstract: {{ABSTRACT_UP_TO_12000_CHARACTERS}}

Deterministic evidence grade:
- evidence score: {{STANDARD_SCORE}}
- study type: {{STUDY_TYPE}}
- evidence level: {{EVIDENCE_LEVEL}}
- extracted sample size: {{SAMPLE_SIZE}}

Evaluate only the supplied record. A high AI score should identify promising
research, not imply that a treatment is established, safe, or clinically
recommended.
Required structured output and validation
{
  "novelty_score": "number 0–100",
  "therapeutic_potential_score": "number 0–100",
  "mechanism_score": "number 0–100",
  "translational_score": "number 0–100",
  "overlooked_value_score": "number 0–100",
  "one_sentence_summary": "string",
  "therapeutic_hypothesis": "string",
  "ai_reasoning": "string",
  "strengths": ["string"], "limitations": ["string"],
  "suggested_tags": ["string"]
}

Pydantic validates the schema and score bounds. Application code clamps and rounds scores, trims text, and removes duplicate list entries. Fatal authentication, authorization, quota, and billing errors stop the batch. Other errors retry after 1, 2, and 4 seconds; a failed paper receives no invented AI fallback.

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COMPOSITION AND RANKING

Final Score

Deterministic evidence retains the larger share of the blended score.

FINAL / BLENDED SCOREFinal = 0.55 × Standard + 0.45 × AI

Both inputs are constrained to 0–100. The result is rounded to two decimal places.

Worked example

Standard: design 100, human 100, therapeutic 22, sample 60, recency 100, abstract 20.

Standard = 30 + 20 + 4.4 + 6 + 10 + 2 = 72.40

AI: novelty 80, therapeutic 70, mechanism 60, translation 50, overlooked 40.

AI = 16 + 21 + 12 + 10 + 4 = 63.00
FINAL68.1772.40 × .55 + 63.00 × .45

The deterministic grade is B. Grade and final rank are separate.

Fallback behavior. Ranking uses COALESCE(final_score, standard_score); pediatric legacy records may additionally use an article-level standard score. Missing AI does not become zero.
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EXPERIMENTAL CONCEPT

Narrative Velocity

Not currently calculated

The production repository does not implement a Narrative Velocity formula, time window, normalization, acceleration measure, threshold, stored score, or ranking contribution. It is a product concept and presentation placeholder—not a production metric. Neither Narrative Velocity nor citation count is used by the active scoring formulas.

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SCIENTIFIC USE

How to interpret results

Scores prioritize attention. They do not collapse the scientific evidence hierarchy.

Interesting signal

A pattern worth investigating.

Mechanistic plausibility

A coherent biological explanation.

Preclinical evidence

Cells, organoids, or animal models.

Human evidence

Observational or interventional human data.

Clinical evidence

Human evidence appraised for bias, effects, and applicability.

Established treatment

Requires evidence and review beyond a Neurocompute score.

An AI therapeutic hypothesis is a hypothesis. It must not be read as a recommendation, validated mechanism, established treatment, or substitute for primary literature, peer review, trials, guidelines, or professional judgment.
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AUDIT TRAIL

Reproducibility & transparency

Standard analysistitle + abstract + date → rules → six components → weighted score

Stores matched rules and terms, sample candidates, age, future-date flag, word count, version, source fingerprint, and score fingerprint.

AI analysispaper packet + standard evidence → validated AIReview → weighted score

Stores component scores, narratives, model, prompt version, scoring version, and originating standard-score fingerprint.

Final rankingstandard + AI → 55/45 blend → descending order

Prior scores are archived before replacement. Missing AI falls back to deterministic evidence.

Auditable code references

score_pediatric_cancer_standard.py and score_prostate_cancer_standard.py — deterministic rules and formula

score_pediatric_cancer_ai.py and score_prostate_cancer_ai.py — prompts, schema, AI and final formulas

core/disease_ai.py — disease isolation and fatal-service error handling

app.py and prostate_routes.py — display fallbacks, sorting, and ranking

Before you continue

AI-assisted research information

Neurocompute uses AI to summarize scientific papers, interpret research signals, and suggest relevant reference links. AI-generated content can be incomplete, misleading, or wrong, and generated links may be irrelevant or unavailable.

Our reviewed outputs have performed strongly to date, but past accuracy is not a guarantee. Verify summaries, scores, claims, and links against the original publication before relying on them.

This platform is for research and education only. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, treatment recommendations, or clinical guidance.

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