Weixiang Shao
Aggregator: A machine learning approach to identifying MEDLINE articles that derive from the same underlying clinical trial
Shao, Weixiang; Adams, Clive E.; Cohen, Aaron M.; Davis, John M.; McDonagh, Marian S.; Thakurta, Sujata; Yu, Philip S.; Smalheiser, Neil R.
Authors
Clive E. Adams
Aaron M. Cohen
John M. Davis
Marian S. McDonagh
Sujata Thakurta
Philip S. Yu
Neil R. Smalheiser
Abstract
Objective
It is important to identify separate publications that report outcomes from the same underlying clinical trial, in order to avoid over-counting these as independent pieces of evidence.
Methods
We created positive and negative training sets (comprised of pairs of articles reporting on the same condition and intervention) that were, or were not, linked to the same clinicaltrials.gov trial registry number. Features were extracted from MEDLINE and PubMed metadata; pairwise similarity scores were modeled using logistic regression.
Results
Article pairs from the same trial were identified with high accuracy (F1 score = 0.843). We also created a clustering tool, Aggregator, that takes as input a PubMed user query for RCTs on a given topic, and returns article clusters predicted to arise from the same clinical trial.
Discussion
Although painstaking examination of full-text may be needed to be conclusive, metadata are surprisingly accurate in predicting when two articles derive from the same underlying clinical trial.
Citation
Shao, W., Adams, C. E., Cohen, A. M., Davis, J. M., McDonagh, M. S., Thakurta, S., …Smalheiser, N. R. (2015). Aggregator: A machine learning approach to identifying MEDLINE articles that derive from the same underlying clinical trial. Methods, 74, 65-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymeth.2014.11.006
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Nov 5, 2014 |
Online Publication Date | Nov 20, 2014 |
Publication Date | 2015-03 |
Deposit Date | Oct 2, 2017 |
Journal | Methods |
Print ISSN | 1046-2023 |
Electronic ISSN | 1095-9130 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 74 |
Pages | 65-70 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymeth.2014.11.006 |
Keywords | Evidence-based medicine; Clinical trials; Systematic reviews; Bias; Information retrieval; Informatics |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/744084 |
Publisher URL | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1046202314003661 |
Additional Information | This article is maintained by: Elsevier; Article Title: Aggregator: A machine learning approach to identifying MEDLINE articles that derive from the same underlying clinical trial; Journal Title: Methods; CrossRef DOI link to publisher maintained version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymeth.2014.11.006; Content Type: article; Copyright: Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
Contract Date | Oct 2, 2017 |
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