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ArticlePatterns (New York, N.Y.)2023

Comprehensively identifying Long Covid articles with human-in-the-loop machine learning.

Robert Leaman, Rezarta Islamaj, Alexis Allot, Qingyu Chen, W John Wilbur, Zhiyong Lu

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Article in Patterns (New York, N.Y.), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 30% of its field
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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Robert LeamanNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA.
Rezarta IslamajNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA.
Alexis AllotNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA.
Qingyu ChenNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA.
W John WilburNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA.
Zhiyong LuNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA.
National Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for Biomedical ApplicationsZIALM237241 · NLM · NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE · PI LU, ZHIYONG · 2023 to 2025
$12.2M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A significant percentage of COVID-19 survivors experience ongoing multisystemic symptoms that often affect daily living, a condition known as Long Covid or post-acute-sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection. However, identifying scientific articles relevant to Long Covid is challenging since there is no standardized or consensus terminology. We developed an iterative human-in-the-loop machine learning framework combining data programming with active learning into a robust ensemble model, demonstrating higher specificity and considerably higher sensitivity than other methods. Analysis of the Long Covid Collection shows that (1) most Long Covid articles do not refer to Long Covid by any name, (2) when the condition is named, the name used most frequently in the literature is Long Covid, and (3) Long Covid is associated with disorders in a wide variety of body systems. The Long Covid Collection is updated weekly and is searchable online at the LitCovid portal: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/docsum?filters=e_condition.LongCovid.

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active learningCOVID-19data programmingLong Covidmachine learningnatural language processingpost-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infectiontext classificationweak supervision

Identifiers

PMID36471749
PMCPMC9712067
OpenAlexW4310775156

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