Automated Rib Fracture Detection on Chest X-Ray Using Contrastive Learning.

"Declarations Ethics Approval and Consent to ParticipateThis study was performed with adherence to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval was granted by the Ethics Committee of Shanghai Changzheng Hospital (No.2022SL071), and the requirement for informed consent of patients was waived due to the retrospective nature of the analysis and the anonymity of the data. Competing InterestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing Interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number (82271994&82001812)); a contract grant sponsor: Pyramid Talent Project of Shanghai Changzheng Hospital; the Shenkang capacity enhancement project (grant number (SHDC22022310-B)); the Military Commission surface project (grant number (22BJZ07)); the National Key Research and Development Program (2022YFC2410000); the Shanghai Science and Technology Commission (19411951300) and the National Health Commission Radiological Imaging Database Construction Project (grant number (YXFSC2022JJSJ010))."