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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 14.
Published in final edited form as: Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019 Aug 21;264:1041–1045. doi: 10.3233/SHTI190383

Table 1 –

Evaluation results of CLAMP Cancer Modules

Type of
information
# of
ent.*
Entity only
(Exact/Relaxed Matching)
Entity and Relation
Precision Recall F-measure Precision Recall F-measure
Specimen 310 0.99/0.99 0.99/0.99 0.99/0.99 0.97 0.98 0.98
Primary-site 351 0.98/0.99 0.98/0.99 0.98/0.99 0.98 0.98 0.98
Sub-Site 187 0.96/0.98 0.82/0.83 0.89/0.90 0.88 0.78 0.83
Procedure 339 0.98/0.99 0.98/0.99 0.98/0.99 0.97 0.97 0.97
Histology 553 0.91/1.00 0.85/0.93 0.88/0.97 0.90 0.85 0.86
Tumor Grade 92 0.96/1.00 0.88/0.91 0.92/0.96 0.91 0.83 0.86
Tumor Size 60 0.96/0.96 0.90/0.90 0.93/0.93 0.88 0.83 0.85
Tumor Margin 93 0.92/0.99 0.91/0.98 0.92/0.98 0.80 0.79 0.80
Invasion 71 0.92/1.00 0.83/0.90 0.87/0.95 0.86 0.78 0.82
Biomarker 107 0.95/0.99 0.90/0.94 0.92/0.96 0.88 0.84 0.86
(a) Performance of CLAMP-Cancer components on the VUMC test corpus
* The number of each type of entities in the test corpus of 200 notes.
 
CLAMP-Cancer MedKAT
Precision Recall F-1 Precision Recall F-measure
Tumor size 1.00 0.99 0.99 1.00 1.00 1.00
Dimension Extend 1.00 0.99 0.99 0.99 1.00 0.99
Dimension Unit 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
Tumor Site 0.94 0.89 0.92 0.96 0.95 0.96
Histology 0.91 0.92 0.92 0.96 0.98 0.97
Grade 1.00 0.88 0.94 0.93 0.97 0.99
Date 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
(b) Performance comparison of CLAMP Cancer Modules and MedKAT on the same information extraction task from 302 pathology reports at Mayo Clinic
*

The number of each type of entities in the test corpus of 200 notes.