Table 4

Recognition of disease in sentences; without the most frequent diseases. This table shows the total number of diseases in the benchmark (Benchmark), the number of distinct diseases (Diseases), the number of diseases annotated by the method and the number of unique diseases identified. Then we present the result on standard measures like precision and recall.


Benchmark
Diseases
Annotated
Diseases
FP
TP
Recall
Precision
F-measure

D look-up
586
269
542
217
143
399
68.09
73.62
70.74
Statistical
586
269
760
299
313
447
76.28
58.82
66.42
MetaMap
586
269
413
182
95
318
54.27
77.00
63.66
Vote 1
586
269
908
347
398
510
87.03
56.17
68.27
Vote 2
586
269
532
218
123
409
69.80
76.88
73.17
Vote 3
586
269
278
130
30
248
42.32
89.21
57.41

Jimeno et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2008 9(Suppl 3):S3   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-S3-S3