Table 6 Performance of state-of-the-art MIST de-identification system against our system, over the development and test sets
From: A system for de-identifying medical message board text
| Â | Development (BC) | Test (Arthritis) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Â | Recall | Precision | Recall | Precision |
MIST | Proper names | 79.9% | 80.5% | 72.2% | 74.9% |
| Â | Usernames | 49.5% | Â | 34.3% | Â |
| Â | All names | 73.0% | Â | 54.6% | Â |
Proposed system | Proper names | 98.9% | 67.4% | 99.0% | 61.4% |
| Â | Usernames | 94.5% | Â | 90.3% | Â |
| Â | All names | 98.1% | Â | 94.3% | Â |