Title
A comparative analysis of semi-supervised learning: The case of article selection for medical systematic reviews.
Abstract
While systematic reviews are positioned as an essential element of modern evidence-based medical practice, the creation of these reviews is resource intensive. To mitigate this problem, there have been some attempts to leverage supervised machine learning to automate the article triage procedure. This approach has been proved to be helpful for updating existing systematic reviews. However, this technique holds very little promise for creating new reviews because training data is rarely available when it comes to systematic creation. In this research we assess and compare the applicability of semi-supervised learning to overcome this labeling bottleneck and support the creation of systematic reviews. The results indicated that semi-supervised learning could significantly reduce the human effort and is a viable technique for automating medical systematic review creation with a small-sized training dataset.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-016-9724-0
Information Systems Frontiers
Keywords
Field
DocType
Medical systematic reviews,Semi-supervised learning,Active learning,Self-training,Text mining,Text analytics
Training set,Data science,Bottleneck,Active learning,Semi-supervised learning,Systematic review,Computer science,Knowledge management,Triage,Self training
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
20
2
1387-3326
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.39
8
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jun Liu1134.79
Prem Timsina2244.24
Omar El-Gayar313619.64