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Anton Alyakin1,2, Jaden Stryker1, Jin Vivian Lee1,2
1Department of Neurological Surgery, NYU Langone Health, New York, New York, USA.
Neurosurgery Practice
|April 20, 2026
Summary
An automated pipeline using artificial intelligence and CSS templates can generate graphical abstracts for neurosurgery articles. This tool achieved publication-ready quality in 70% of cases, enhancing scientific communication.
Area of Science:
- Neurosurgery
- Medical Publishing
- Artificial Intelligence in Science
Background:
- Neurosurgery Publications encourages graphical abstracts to enhance article comprehension.
- Developing automated methods for graphical abstract creation is a key objective.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop and evaluate an automated pipeline for generating graphical abstracts from neurosurgery manuscripts.
- The pipeline utilizes Cascade Styling Sheets (CSS) and a vision language model for content conversion.
Main Methods:
- An automated pipeline was developed using Claude Sonnet-3.5 and custom CSS.
- The system generated structured summaries and selected representative figures based on captions.
- 100 neurosurgery articles were used for evaluation by editorial board members.
Main Results:
- The automated pipeline achieved 85% proper formatting and 99% factual accuracy.
- 70% of generated graphical abstracts were deemed publication-ready without manual intervention.
- Common errors included suboptimal figure selection (40%) and PDF extraction issues (26.7%).
Conclusions:
- An AI-CSS pipeline can automate graphical abstract generation for neurosurgery, yielding publication-ready results in 70% of cases.
- This technology serves as a scalable tool to reduce author design burden and improve visual scientific communication.
- The pipeline complements human expertise, enhancing the efficiency of scientific publishing.
