{"id":207770,"date":"2026-05-01T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/nejm-retracts-case-study-for-ai-manipulated-imagery-retraction-watch\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T10:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:55:15","slug":"nejm-retracts-case-study-for-ai-manipulated-imagery-retraction-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/nejm-retracts-case-study-for-ai-manipulated-imagery-retraction-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"NEJM retracts case study for AI-manipulated imagery \u2013 Retraction Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/retractionwatch.com\/2026\/05\/01\/nejm-retracts-case-study-for-ai-manipulated-imagery\/\">NEJM retracts case study for AI-manipulated imagery \u2013 Retraction Watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/retractionwatch.com\/2026\/05\/01\/nejm-retracts-case-study-for-ai-manipulated-imagery\/\">https:\/\/retractionwatch.com\/2026\/05\/01\/nejm-retracts-case-study-for-ai-manipulated-imagery\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-01 10:49:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"retractionwatch.com\">retractionwatch.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>The New England Journal of Medicine has retracted an &#8220;Images in Clinical Medicine&#8221; article that included a manipulated clinical image.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The retraction was due to the authors, Yuling Wang and Xiangdong Mu, admitting to using an AI tool to alter the image, specifically moving and straightening the measuring tape scale in the picture.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The retracted image depicted an 87-year-old man\u2019s lung damage post forest fire exposure, showing airways with unusual black &#8220;casts&#8221; which were highlighted by the altered scale.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Despite their actions, Wang and Mu emphasized that the clinical conclusions from their report remain valid and that the image manipulation did not affect the diagnostic information presented.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Concerns about the unusual scale and irregular numbering on the measuring tape were initially raised by a commenter on PubPeer, prompting the retraction notice.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>This marks the first retraction by NEJM since 2020, when papers related to Covid-19 treatments were withdrawn due to data issues from another source.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEJM retracts case study for AI-manipulated imagery \u2013 Retraction Watch https:\/\/retractionwatch.com\/2026\/05\/01\/nejm-retracts-case-study-for-ai-manipulated-imagery\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-01 10:49:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/retractionwatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/nejmicm2518379_f1_forweb.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207772,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207770\/revisions\/207772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}