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. 2017 Oct 30;31(2):185–192. doi: 10.1007/s10278-017-0030-2

Table 4.

Summary of positive and negative matches between the manual annotation set and the automated annotation set. There were a total of 160 manual annotations (gold-standard set) and 231 cTAKES annotations. True positives were defined as manual annotations with an exact or partial match in the cTAKES annotation set. False negatives were defined as manual annotations with no cTAKES match or those with a match that was assigned incorrect polarity by cTAKES. False positives were defined a cTAKES annotation that had no overlap with a manual annotation

Number Percentage
Manual annotations (gold standard) 160
Automated annotations (cTAKES) 231
True positives 137 85.6
 Perfect cTAKES matches 93 58.1
 Partial cTAKES matches 44 27.5
False negatives 23 14.4
 Manual annotation with no cTAKES annotation 10 6.3
 Incorrect polarity assigned by cTAKES 13 8.1
False positives 71 31
 cTAKES annotation with no manual annotation 71 31