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Answer to the letter to the editor by Zhi-Hui Dai concerning “Artificial intelligence in predicting early-onset adjacent segment degeneration following anterior cervical discectomy and fusion” by Rudisill SS et al. (Eur Spine J [2022]; doi: 10.1007/s00586-022-07238-3)

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, 1611 W. Harrison Street, Chicago, IL, 60642, USA

    Samuel S. Rudisill, Alexander L. Hornung, J. Nicolás Barajas, Jack J. Bridge, G. Michael Mallow, Wylie Lopez, Arash J. Sayari, Garrett K. Harada, Matthew W. Colman, Frank M. Phillips, Howard S. An & Dino Samartzis

  2. International Spine Research and Innovation Initiative, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA

    Samuel S. Rudisill, Alexander L. Hornung, J. Nicolás Barajas, G. Michael Mallow, Wylie Lopez, Arash J. Sayari, Garrett K. Harada, Matthew W. Colman, Frank M. Phillips, Howard S. An & Dino Samartzis

  3. Department of Data Science and Analytics, University of Missouri, Colombia, MO, USA

    Jack J. Bridge

  4. Neuroscience Institute, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA

    Philip K. Louie

  5. Institute of Orthopaedic Research and Biomechanics, Ulm University Medical Centre, Ulm, Germany

    Youping Tao & Hans-Joachim Wilke

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Rudisill, S.S., Hornung, A.L., Barajas, J.N. et al. Answer to the letter to the editor by Zhi-Hui Dai concerning “Artificial intelligence in predicting early-onset adjacent segment degeneration following anterior cervical discectomy and fusion” by Rudisill SS et al. (Eur Spine J [2022]; doi: 10.1007/s00586-022-07238-3). Eur Spine J 31, 3161–3162 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-022-07357-x

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