Are figure legends sufficient? Evaluating the contribution of associated text to biomedical figure comprehension.

Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration
Hong YuAaron Cohen

Abstract

Biomedical scientists need to access figures to validate research facts and to formulate or to test novel research hypotheses. However, figures are difficult to comprehend without associated text (e.g., figure legend and other reference text). We are developing automated systems to extract the relevant explanatory information along with figures extracted from full text articles. Such systems could be very useful in improving figure retrieval and in reducing the workload of biomedical scientists, who otherwise have to retrieve and read the entire full-text journal article to determine which figures are relevant to their research. As a crucial step, we studied the importance of associated text in biomedical figure comprehension. Twenty subjects evaluated three figure-text combinations: figure+legend, figure+legend+title+abstract, and figure+full-text. Using a Likert scale, each subject scored each figure+text according to the extent to which the subject thought he/she understood the meaning of the figure and the confidence in providing the assigned score. Additionally, each subject entered a free text summary for each figure-text. We identified missing information using indicator words present within the text summaries. Both the ...Continue Reading

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Citations

Apr 16, 2011·Bioinformatics·Shashank Agarwal, Hong Yu
May 25, 2011·BMC Bioinformatics·Rashmi PrasadHong Yu
Apr 27, 2010·PloS One·Anna DivoliMarti A Hearst
Jan 21, 2011·PloS One·Daehyun Kim, Hong Yu
Feb 3, 2015·PloS One·Balaji Polepalli RameshHong Yu
Mar 15, 2014·PloS One·Feifan Liu, Hong Yu
May 11, 2019·Sexually Transmitted Infections·Lorraine K McDonaghNatalie Lois Edelman
Mar 16, 2021·F1000Research·Christopher Schmied, Helena Klara Jambor

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
fluorescence microscopy

Software Mentioned

ROUGE
BioText

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