Screening PubMed abstracts: is class imbalance always a challenge to machine learning?

Abstract Background The growing number of medical literature and textual data in online repositories led to an exponential increase in the workload of researchers involved in citation screening for systematic reviews. This work aims to combine machine learning techniques and data preprocessing for c...

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Main Authors: Corrado Lanera, Paola Berchialla, Abhinav Sharma, Clara Minto, Dario Gregori, Ileana Baldi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-12-01
Series:Systematic Reviews
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-019-1245-8