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From: Automatic classification of registered clinical trials towards the Global Burden of Diseases taxonomy of diseases and injuries

Fig. 1

Example of classification of a clinical trial record towards the GBD categories. The classification process is based on text extraction from the trial record, text annotation using UMLS concepts, projection of UMLS concepts to ICD10 codes, projection of ICD10 codes to candidate GBD categories among the 28 GBD categories, and GBD classification based on the candidate GBD categories. In this example, the text annotation involved use of the WSD server for MetaMap, and no expert-based enrichment was needed

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