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ArticlePloS one2015

Figure-associated text summarization and evaluation.

Balaji Polepalli Ramesh, Ricky J Sethi, Hong Yu

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Article in PloS one, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. A systematic review of automatic text summarization for biomedical literature and EHRs.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2021
    Pooled it
  2. [Chinese introduction to the Preferred Reporting Items for Randomized Trials in Endodontics 2020 checklist].Hua xi kou qiang yi xue za zhi = Huaxi kouqiang yixue zazhi = West China journal of stomatology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Balaji Polepalli RameshDepartment of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America.
Ricky J SethiDepartment of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America.
Hong YuDepartment of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America; School of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States of America; VA Central Western Massachusetts, Leeds, MA, United States of America.

Funding

University of Massachusetts Center for Clinical and Translational ScienceUL1TR000161 · NCATS · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI LUZURIAGA, KATHERINE F · 2012 to 2015
$11.0M
Exploring Natural Language Processing, Image Processing, Machine Learning, and UsR01GM095476 · NIGMS · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI YU, HONG · 2011 to 2015
$2.5M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000161NCATS NIH HHS UL1TR000161NIGMS NIH HHS 1R01GM095476NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM095476
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biomedical literature incorporates millions of figures, which are a rich and important knowledge resource for biomedical researchers. Scientists need access to the figures and the knowledge they represent in order to validate research findings and to generate new hypotheses. By themselves, these figures are nearly always incomprehensible to both humans and machines and their associated texts are therefore essential for full comprehension. The associated text of a figure, however, is scattered throughout its full-text article and contains redundant information content. In this paper, we report the continued development and evaluation of several figure summarization systems, the FigSum+ systems, that automatically identify associated texts, remove redundant information, and generate a text summary for every figure in an article. Using a set of 94 annotated figures selected from 19 different journals, we conducted an intrinsic evaluation of FigSum+. We evaluate the performance by precision, recall, F1, and ROUGE scores. The best FigSum+ system is based on an unsupervised method, achieving F1 score of 0.66 and ROUGE-1 score of 0.97. The annotated data is available at figshare.com (http://figshare.com/articles/Figure_Associated_Text_Summarization_and_Evaluation/858903).

Indexed as

Biomedical ResearchComputer GraphicsPublicationsData Mining

Identifiers

PMID25643357
PMCPMC4313946

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