Classification of Clinically Useful Sentences in MEDLINE.

Morid MA, Jonnalagadda S, Fiszman M, Raja K, Del Fiol G

AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2015 Nov 5;2015:2015-24. eCollection 2015.

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Abstract:

OBJECTIVEIn a previous study, we investigated a sentence classification model that uses semantic features to extract clinically useful sentences from UpToDate, a synthesized clinical evidence resource. In the present study, we assess the generalizability of the sentence classifier to Medline abstracts.METHODSWe applied the classification model to an independent gold standard of high quality clinical studies from Medline. Then, the classifier trained on UpToDate sentences was optimized by re-retraining the classifier with Medline abstracts and adding a sentence location feature.RESULTSThe previous classifier yielded an F-measure of 58% on Medline versus 67% on UpToDate. Re-training the classifier on Medline improved F-measure to 68%; and to 76% (p<0.01) after adding the sentence location feature.CONCLUSIONSThe classifier's model and input features generalized to Medline abstracts, but the classifier needed to be retrained on Medline to achieve equivalent performance. Sentence location provided additional contribution to the overall classification performance.

Morid MA, Jonnalagadda S, Fiszman M, Raja K, Del Fiol G. Classification of Clinically Useful Sentences in MEDLINE. 
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2015 Nov 5;2015:2015-24. eCollection 2015.

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