Rashmi Mishra1, Jiantao Bian2, Marcelo Fiszman3, Charlene R Weir4, Siddhartha Jonnalagadda5, Javed Mostafa6, Guilherme Del Fiol7. 1. Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. 2. Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA; Clinical Modeling Team, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. 3. Lister Hill Center, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA. 4. Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA; VA Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. 5. Department of Preventive Medicine-Health and Biomedical Informatics, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA. 6. School of Information and Library Science (SILS), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. 7. Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Electronic address: guilherme.delfiol@utah.edu.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The amount of information for clinicians and clinical researchers is growing exponentially. Text summarization reduces information as an attempt to enable users to find and understand relevant source texts more quickly and effortlessly. In recent years, substantial research has been conducted to develop and evaluate various summarization techniques in the biomedical domain. The goal of this study was to systematically review recent published research on summarization of textual documents in the biomedical domain. MATERIALS AND METHODS: MEDLINE (2000 to October 2013), IEEE Digital Library, and the ACM digital library were searched. Investigators independently screened and abstracted studies that examined text summarization techniques in the biomedical domain. Information is derived from selected articles on five dimensions: input, purpose, output, method and evaluation. RESULTS: Of 10,786 studies retrieved, 34 (0.3%) met the inclusion criteria. Natural language processing (17; 50%) and a hybrid technique comprising of statistical, Natural language processing and machine learning (15; 44%) were the most common summarization approaches. Most studies (28; 82%) conducted an intrinsic evaluation. DISCUSSION: This is the first systematic review of text summarization in the biomedical domain. The study identified research gaps and provides recommendations for guiding future research on biomedical text summarization. CONCLUSION: Recent research has focused on a hybrid technique comprising statistical, language processing and machine learning techniques. Further research is needed on the application and evaluation of text summarization in real research or patient care settings.
OBJECTIVE: The amount of information for clinicians and clinical researchers is growing exponentially. Text summarization reduces information as an attempt to enable users to find and understand relevant source texts more quickly and effortlessly. In recent years, substantial research has been conducted to develop and evaluate various summarization techniques in the biomedical domain. The goal of this study was to systematically review recent published research on summarization of textual documents in the biomedical domain. MATERIALS AND METHODS: MEDLINE (2000 to October 2013), IEEE Digital Library, and the ACM digital library were searched. Investigators independently screened and abstracted studies that examined text summarization techniques in the biomedical domain. Information is derived from selected articles on five dimensions: input, purpose, output, method and evaluation. RESULTS: Of 10,786 studies retrieved, 34 (0.3%) met the inclusion criteria. Natural language processing (17; 50%) and a hybrid technique comprising of statistical, Natural language processing and machine learning (15; 44%) were the most common summarization approaches. Most studies (28; 82%) conducted an intrinsic evaluation. DISCUSSION: This is the first systematic review of text summarization in the biomedical domain. The study identified research gaps and provides recommendations for guiding future research on biomedical text summarization. CONCLUSION: Recent research has focused on a hybrid technique comprising statistical, language processing and machine learning techniques. Further research is needed on the application and evaluation of text summarization in real research or patient care settings.
Authors: Jean I Garcia-Gathright; Nicholas J Matiasz; Carlos Adame; Karthik V Sarma; Lauren Sauer; Nova F Smedley; Marshall L Spiegel; Jennifer Strunck; Edward B Garon; Ricky K Taira; Denise R Aberle; Alex A T Bui Journal: Comput Biol Med Date: 2017-11-03 Impact factor: 4.589
Authors: Guilherme Del Fiol; Javed Mostafa; Dongqiuye Pu; Richard Medlin; Stacey Slager; Siddhartha R Jonnalagadda; Charlene R Weir Journal: Int J Med Inform Date: 2015-11-21 Impact factor: 4.046