Table 3.
Medical entity extraction according to semantic types. Tr = T/N, type error rate; Br = B/N, boundary error rate; P = precision. All results are percentages.
| MetaMap | LTS+MetaMap | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tr | Br | P | Tr | Br | P | |
| Disease Or Syndrome | 9.09 | 52.27 | 64.77 | 9.81 | 26.48 | 76.94 |
| Injury or poisoning | 33.33 | 34.84 | 49.24 | 26.19 | 35.71 | 55.95 |
| Neoplastic Process | 29.03 | 6.45 | 67.74 | 37.5 | 12.50 | 56.25 |
| Anatomical Abnormality | 85.71 | 0.00 | 14.28 | 40.00 | 0.00 | 60.00 |
| Cell or Molecular Dysfunction | 66.66 | 25.00 | 20.83 | 44.44 | 44.44 | 27.79 |
| Total | 30.08 | 30.52 | 54.62 | 12.23 | 27.10 | 74.21 |