How to Screen Studies with AI

Silvi's AI feature can help you speed up your screening process.

Here's how:

1. Start by creating a new project and importing studies from PubMed, ERIC, or Open Alex. You can also import studies using an RIS file.

In this example, we we import 6,000+ studies from PubMed.

Click on "Start screening" once all studies have been imported into Silvi.

2. Screen a few studies.

When you click on the red "Exclude" button, it will ask you for exclusion criteria. Specify your exclusion criteria and hit Enter/Return.

The study will be excluded and the specified criteria will be shown in the column to the right of your screen.

3. Click on the left-most button on the top bar. This will give you AI screening options.

Enter a description of your project. The more precise you can be, the better the AI prediction.

Under the description, you will see "Exclusion criteria."

The exclusion criteria you already added will be show here. Open one of the criterion, and describe it for the AI to understand your requirement better.

You can also add new exclusion criteria.

4. When you are done describing and adding your exclusion criteria, click on "Screen studies."

Silvi will screen all the studies in your project.

5. Once the AI has screened all the studies, click on the filters button on top of the left column.

Under "Suggestions," select "Exclude." It will show you all of your exclusion criteria.

Select one of the criterion and it will show you all the studies that the AI suggested to exclude based on that criterion.

6. In the column below, select all the studies using Shift + Down Arrow Key and Silvi will show you abstracts of the selected studies along with AI suggestions.

If you agree with AI suggestions, you can click on "Use AI decisions" and it will exclude the selected studies.

If you want to remove a particular study from the selection, simply click on the cross in the top-right corner of that study.