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

Table 6.

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

Traditional search
Total citations: 3181
Title-abstract screening: 201 includes/2980 excludes
Full-text screening: 59 includes/3122 excludes
Training set: ROR citations + 30% random citations
Labeled citations: 1063 (33%)
Training set labels: TP (40), FP (0), TN (1023)
Unlabeled citations assigned inclusion prediction by ML algorithm: 2118
Inclusion prediction: 0.3 Inclusion prediction: 0.4 Inclusion prediction: 0.5
Predicted includes 2094 1765 676
Predicted excludes 24 353 1442
Sensitivity 98% 84% 80%
Specificity 34% 44% 79%
Missed citations 1 3 12
Burden 99% 89% 55%
Time savings (min) 12 177 721

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