Automated medical literature screening using artificial intelligence: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Yunying FengSiyu LiangYuelun ZhangShi ChenQing WangTianze HuangFeng SunXiaoqing LiuHui-Juan ZhuHui Pan

Published in: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA (2022)

This systematic review and meta-analysis study showed that the recall is more important than the specificity or precision in literature screening, and a recall over 0.95 should be prioritized. We recommend to report the effectiveness indices of automatic algorithms separately. At the current stage manual literature screening is still indispensable for medical systematic reviews.

Keyphrases

systematic review
artificial intelligence
machine learning
deep learning
healthcare
big data
randomized controlled trial
high throughput
meta analyses