| Title | Automation of literature screening using machine learning in medical evidence synthesis: a diagnostic test accuracy systematic review protocol |
| Authors | Zhang, Yuelun Liang, Siyu Feng, Yunying Wang, Qing Sun, Feng Chen, Shi Yang, Yiying He, Xin Zhu, Huijuan Pan, Hui |
| Affiliation | Chinese Acad Med Sci & Peking Union Med Coll, Peking Union Med Coll Hosp, Med Res Ctr, Beijing, Peoples R China Chinese Acad Med Sci & Peking Union Med Coll, Peking Union Med Coll Hosp, Dept Endocrinol, 1 Shuaifuyuan, Beijing, Peoples R China Chinese Acad Med Sci & Peking Union Med Coll, Peking Union Med Coll Hosp, Eight Year Program Clin Med, Beijing, Peoples R China Tsinghua Univ, Res Inst Informat & Technol, Beijing, Peoples R China Peking Univ, Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Epidemiol & Biostat, Hlth Sci Ctr, Beijing, Peoples R China |
| Keywords | QUALITY |
| Issue Date | 15-Jan-2022 |
| Publisher | SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS |
| Abstract | Background: Systematic review is an indispensable tool for optimal evidence collection and evaluation in evidence-based medicine. However, the explosive increase of the original literatures makes it difficult to accomplish critical appraisal and regular update. Artificial intelligence (Al) algorithms have been applied to automate the literature screening procedure in medical systematic reviews. In these studies, different algorithms were used and results with great variance were reported. It is therefore imperative to systematically review and analyse the developed automatic methods for literature screening and their effectiveness reported in current studies. Methods: An electronic search will be conducted using PubMed, Embase, ACM Digital Library, and IEEE Xplore Digital Library databases, as well as literatures found through supplementary search in Google scholar, on automatic methods for literature screening in systematic reviews. Two reviewers will independently conduct the primary screening of the articles and data extraction, in which nonconformities will be solved by discussion with a methodologist. Data will be extracted from eligible studies, including the basic characteristics of study, the information of training set and validation set, and the function and performance of Al algorithms, and summarised in a table. The risk of bias and applicability of the eligible studies will be assessed by the two reviewers independently based on Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (QUADAS-2). Quantitative analyses, if appropriate, will also be performed. Discussion: Automating systematic review process is of great help in reducing workload in evidence-based practice. Results from this systematic review will provide essential summary of the current development of Al algorithms for automatic literature screening in medical evidence synthesis and help to inspire further studies in this field. |
| URI | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11897/634839 |
| DOI | 10.1186/s13643-021-01881-5 |
| Indexed | SCI(E) |
| Appears in Collections: | 公共卫生学院 |
