Automated recognition of malignancy mentions in biomedical literature

BMC Bioinformatics

Table 1 Top 25 MTag identified mentions and their corresponding PubMED keyword and MEDLINE exact string matching search results.

MTag-identified Mentions	Evaluation	MTag articles	PubMED keyword articles	MEDLINE exact matches
carcinoma	True Positive	861214	466958	891996
breast neoplasms	True Positive	129096	133592	137445
adenocarcinoma	True Positive	166302	208117	183654
lung neoplasms	True Positive	104176	110378	111869
pulmonary	False Positive
breast cancer	True Positive	91446	147286	128381
lymphoma	True Positive	182764	158674	226407
liver neoplasms	True Positive	69513	84529	84712
fibroblasts	False Positive
skin neoplasms	True Positive	62282	66072	66105
neoplastic	False Positive
neoplasm metastasis	False Positive
brain neoplasms	True Positive	58729	84636	63586
stomach neoplasms	True Positive	50019	52566	55208
prostatic neoplasms	True Positive	48042	49110	50312
leukemia	True Positive	163011	190798	368980
colonic neoplasms	True Positive	41327	47402	42841
cervical neoplasms	True Positive	40998	41424	41717
sarcoma	True Positive	142665	110920	242654
bone neoplasms	True Positive	33568	73429	35091
melanoma	True Positive	79519	61134	126681
pancreatic neoplasms	True Positive	31598	33775	33291
extramural	False Positive
lung cancer	True Positive	53601	118679	66071
abdominal	False Positive

ISSN: 1471-2105