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




Jin et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2006 7:492   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-7-492