Research Article

Text Mining Method in the Field of Health

Volume: 12 Number: 2 June 4, 2020
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Text Mining Method in the Field of Health

Abstract

Objective: Text mining which digitalizes textual data and enables them to be applied for text mining algorithms has very important place in the today’s world. The aim of this study was to introduce the text mining method and to show its application on a subject in the field of health. Methods: The text mining method was applied to the individual documents obtained from the most commonly used Pubmed database and then the merged documents under two different titles as “human-and-cancer” and “mouse-and-cancer” through the Knime program, and the document classification was made using K nearest neighbor (K-NN) algorithm. Results: The prominent words were “cell” and “cancer” in tag cloud graphs. In both documents, the words such as “cell”, “cancer”, “tumor”, “patient”, whose frequency values were high, were observed to be high rates in the analysis performed after the data was merged. It was found that 255 of 600 test documents belonged to the human-and-cancer class and the remaining belonged to the mouse-and-cancer class, and the accuracy classification was 56.6% for the human-and-cancer-documents and 62.6% for the mouse-and-cancer-documents according to the F-criteria. It was determined that the document classification estimation by the K-NN algorithm was relatively successful with a rate of 59.8% however Cohen’s kappa value was 19.7%, meaning that the fit was of slight level. Conclusion: It was recommended to use the text mining method and to generalize its use in order to obtain information quickly and reliably in the health field where there were numerous digital and printed documents.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Health Care Administration

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

June 4, 2020

Submission Date

March 9, 2020

Acceptance Date

April 3, 2020

Published in Issue

Year 2020 Volume: 12 Number: 2

APA
Toplu, S., & Cangür, Ş. (2020). Text Mining Method in the Field of Health. Konuralp Medical Journal, 12(2), 236-246. https://doi.org/10.18521/ktd.700789
AMA
1.Toplu S, Cangür Ş. Text Mining Method in the Field of Health. Konuralp Medical Journal. 2020;12(2):236-246. doi:10.18521/ktd.700789
Chicago
Toplu, Selçuk, and Şengül Cangür. 2020. “Text Mining Method in the Field of Health”. Konuralp Medical Journal 12 (2): 236-46. https://doi.org/10.18521/ktd.700789.
EndNote
Toplu S, Cangür Ş (June 1, 2020) Text Mining Method in the Field of Health. Konuralp Medical Journal 12 2 236–246.
IEEE
[1]S. Toplu and Ş. Cangür, “Text Mining Method in the Field of Health”, Konuralp Medical Journal, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 236–246, June 2020, doi: 10.18521/ktd.700789.
ISNAD
Toplu, Selçuk - Cangür, Şengül. “Text Mining Method in the Field of Health”. Konuralp Medical Journal 12/2 (June 1, 2020): 236-246. https://doi.org/10.18521/ktd.700789.
JAMA
1.Toplu S, Cangür Ş. Text Mining Method in the Field of Health. Konuralp Medical Journal. 2020;12:236–246.
MLA
Toplu, Selçuk, and Şengül Cangür. “Text Mining Method in the Field of Health”. Konuralp Medical Journal, vol. 12, no. 2, June 2020, pp. 236-4, doi:10.18521/ktd.700789.
Vancouver
1.Selçuk Toplu, Şengül Cangür. Text Mining Method in the Field of Health. Konuralp Medical Journal. 2020 Jun. 1;12(2):236-4. doi:10.18521/ktd.700789

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