AI Study Screening Tool

About

Accelerate your systematic reviews and literature screening with the power of privacy-first, local AI.

The AI Study Screening Tool is a powerful Chrome extension designed specifically for academic researchers, systematic reviewers, and students. It bridges the gap between your research data and advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) without compromising your privacy or requiring expensive cloud API subscriptions.

By connecting directly to your local AI environment (such as LM Studio), this tool reads your uploaded Excel files, evaluates study titles and abstracts against your custom criteria, and suggests "Include" or "Exclude" decisions—all offline, securely, and entirely within your browser.

🌟 Why Choose the AI Study Screening Tool?
1. 100% Local & Secure (Zero Cloud Data Transfer)
In academic research, data privacy is paramount. Unlike web-based AI tools that send your sensitive data to external servers, this extension communicates exclusively with your local machine. Your Excel files, proprietary abstracts, and screening criteria never leave your computer.

2. Seamless Excel Integration
Stop juggling complex Python scripts or copying and pasting between windows. Simply upload your .xlsx or .xls workbook directly into the extension. The tool automatically formats the data into a clean, distraction-free reading interface and seamlessly writes the AI's responses back into a new Excel file when you are done.

3. Highly Customizable Criteria
Every systematic review is different. The tool allows you to define up to 4 specific Yes/No/Unclear questions tailored perfectly to your study's unique inclusion and exclusion criteria (e.g., "Is this a Randomized Controlled Trial?", "Does it measure cardiometabolic outcomes?"). The AI evaluates the abstract specifically against your questions.

4. Human-in-the-Loop Review
AI is an assistant, not a replacement. Once the AI screens a chunk of papers, you can easily review its suggested decisions, read its rationale, and log your own final human decisions and notes alongside the AI's output.

5. "Auto-Screen" Mode
Got a large batch of papers? Click "Auto AI Screen Remaining," step back, and watch the extension process abstract after abstract automatically, tracking its progress on the screen.

🚀 How It Works
Start Your Local AI: Open LM Studio, load your preferred model (like Mistral or Llama), enable CORS in the Local Server tab, and click "Start Server".

Define Your Rules: Open the Chrome extension and type in your 4 custom screening questions.

Upload Data: Select your Excel file containing "Title" and "Abstract Note" columns.

Run AI: Click "Run AI Screening" to evaluate a single paper, or "Auto AI Screen" to process the entire sheet.

Export: Click "Save & Download Progress" to instantly generate a new, fully-coded .xlsx file containing the AI's answers, suggested decisions, and your personal reviewer notes.

🛠️ Prerequisites & Requirements
To use the AI features of this extension, you must have a local LLM runner installed on your computer.

We highly recommend LM Studio (free to download).

Make sure to turn on the "Local Server" feature on port 1234 and enable CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) in the LM Studio settings so the Chrome Extension can communicate with it.

Take control of your literature reviews. Let local AI handle the heavy lifting of abstract screening so you can focus on the research that matters!