Screening nonrandomized studies for medical systematic reviews: A comparative study of classifiers

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 197-207

  Bekhuis, Tanja ^a   Demner Fushman, Dina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical research informatics; Document classification; Medical informatics; Systematic reviews; Text mining

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION; INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TEXT MINING;

DATA MINING; DIAGNOSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; METADATA; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TEXT PROCESSING;

OPTIMIZATION;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CITATION ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; MACHINE LEARNING; PARAMETERS; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATA MINING; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84863777762     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: 18732860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2012.05.002     Document Type: Article

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