Retraction Note: BMC Psychiatry (2024) 24:739
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-024-06116-0
The Editor has retracted this article. Three of the eleven articles included in this meta-analysis have been retracted [1,2,3]. Additionally, two [1, 2] of these retracted articles, as well as three other articles included in this meta-analysis [4,5,6] rely on the use of a non-curated dataset. The dataset is reported to contain images of children with ASD. However, the images appear to have been collected from the internet without any documented clinical history or confirmation of an actual ASD diagnosis. Additionally, there is no documented ethical oversight, or consent of the children included in the dataset or their parents and legal guardians.
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