使用图表查询搜索COVID-19临床研究:算法开发和验证
Francesco Invernici1, Anna Bernasconi1, Stefano Ceri1
1Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.
Journal of medical Internet research
|May 30, 2024
概括
这项研究引入了基于图表的COVID-19文献搜索,使用户能够视觉地探索复杂的研究关系. 这种方法增强了证据的发现,超出了传统的关键字搜索.
科学领域:
- 生物医学信息学 生物医学信息学
- 计算生物学 计算生物学
- 信息科学 信息科学 信息科学
背景情况:
- 由于COVID-19的流行,产生了超过一百万项研究,创造了大量的非结构化摘要.
- 现有的基于关键字的对此文献的搜索是有限的,缺乏视觉支持,并且在复杂的查询中扎.
研究的目的:
- 开发基于图形的COVID-19文献搜索系统,以改善探索和查询.
- 利用概念图来以用户友好的方式表示和查询科学知识.
主要方法:
- 有注释的COVID-19摘要使用来自统一医疗语言系统和冠状病毒传染病本体学的术语.
- 构建了基于相互信息的连接的概念共发生网络.
- 开发了一个图表查询引擎,支持准确和部分匹配,并提供查询完成建议.
主要成果:
- 创建了一个共发生网络,拥有128,249个实体和47,198,965个关系.
- 实现了一个GRAPH-SEARCH接口,用于交互式网络探索和查询表述.
- 为了清晰度,生成排序的文献列表,其中包含与特定查询组件相关的出版物.
结论:
- 开发的方法促进了查询的制定和从大型文本体中检索证据.
- 这种方法可以适应其他科学领域的可用文档库和本体学.
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