Deep learning to refine the identification of high-quality clinical research articles from the biomedical literature: Performance evaluation.

Journal: Journal of biomedical informatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Identifying practice-ready evidence-based journal articles in medicine is a challenge due to the sheer volume of biomedical research publications. Newer approaches to support evidence discovery apply deep learning techniques to improve the efficiency and accuracy of classifying sound evidence.

Authors

  • Cynthia Lokker
    Health Information Research Unit, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: lokkerc@mcmaster.ca.
  • Elham Bagheri
    Nanyang Technological University, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Singapore 639798, Singapore. Electronic address: elham001@e.ntu.edu.sg.
  • Wael Abdelkader
    Health Information Research Unit, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
  • Rick Parrish
    Health Information Research Unit, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
  • Muhammad Afzal
    Department of Computer Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Seocheon-dong, Giheung-gu Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do 446-701, Korea. muhammad.afzal@oslab.khu.ac.kr.
  • Tamara Navarro
    Health Information Research Unit, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
  • Chris Cotoi
    Health Information Research Unit, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
  • Federico Germini
    Health Information Research Unit, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
  • Lori Linkins
    Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
  • R Brian Haynes
    Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
  • Lingyang Chu
    Department of Computing and Software, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
  • Alfonso Iorio
    Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.