Text mining for the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System: medical text classification using informative feature selection.
The US Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) collects spontaneous reports of adverse events following vaccination. Medical officers review the reports and often apply standardized case definitions, such as those developed by the Brighton Collaboration. Our objective was to demonstrate a multi-level text mining approach for automated text classification of VAERS reports that could potentially reduce human workload.
Author(s): Botsis, Taxiarchis, Nguyen, Michael D, Woo, Emily Jane, Markatou, Marianthi, Ball, Robert
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2010-000022