The journal retracts the article, “Utilizing Generative Adversarial Networks for Acne Dataset Generation in Dermatology” [1], cited above.
Following publication, concerns were brought to the attention of the Editorial Office regarding an overlap between this article [1] and a previously published pre-print [2] produced by a different authorship group [2].
Adhering to our complaints procedure, an investigation was conducted by the Editorial Office and the Editorial Board that confirmed a significant overlap of methodology, data and a figure (Figure 6) between this article [1] and the earlier pre-print [2], without appropriate acknowledgment or citation.
As a result, the Editorial Office, the Editorial Board and the authors have decided to retract this paper as per MDPI’s retraction policy (https://www.mdpi.com/ethics#_bookmark30, accessed on 7 May 2024).
This retraction was approved by the Editor-in-Chief of BioMedInformatics.
The authors did not agree to this retraction.
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