Identifying main finding sentences in clinical case reports.

ABSTRACT: Clinical case reports are the 'eyewitness reports' of medicine and provide a valuable, unique, albeit noisy and underutilized type of evidence. Generally, a case report has a single main finding that represents the reason for writing up the report in the first place. However, no one has previously created an automatic way of identifying main finding sentences in case reports. We previously created a manual corpus of main finding sentences extracted from the abstracts and full text of clinical case reports. Here, we have utilized the corpus to create a machine learning-based model that automatically predicts which sentence(s) from abstracts state the main finding. The model has been evaluated on a separate manual corpus of clinical case reports and found to have good performance. This is a

SUBMITTER: Luo M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7287507 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature