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. 2020 Oct 19;9:243. doi: 10.1186/s13643-020-01450-2

Table 4.

Semi-automation test with RobotAnalyst using a training set of dually reviewed randomly selected citations with labels from title and abstract screening

Traditional database search
Total citations: 3128
Title-abstract screening: 148 includes/2980 excludes
Full-text screening: 46 includes/3082 excludes
Training set
Labeled citations: 938 (30%)
Training set labels: TP (15), FP (32), TN (891)
Unlabeled citations assigned inclusion prediction by ML algorithm: 2190
Inclusion prediction: 0.3 Inclusion prediction: 0.4 Inclusion prediction: 0.5
Predicted includes 2168 1970 1363
Predicted excludes 22 220 827
Sensitivity 100% 93% 74%
Specificity 30% 36% 55%
Missed citations 0 3 12
Burden 99% 93% 74%
Time savings (min) 11 110 413.5

FP false positive, ML machine learning, TP true positive, TN true positive