Survey on the Biomedical Text Summarization Techniques with an Emphasis on Databases, Techniques, Semantic Approaches, Classification Techniques, and Similarity Measures

Dipti Pawar, Shraddha Phansalkar (), Abhishek Sharma, Gouri Kumar Sahu, Chun Kit Ang and Wei Hong Lim ()
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Dipti Pawar: Department of Computer Engineering, MIT Art, Design and Technology University, Pune 412201, India
Shraddha Phansalkar: Department of Computer Engineering, MIT Art, Design and Technology University, Pune 412201, India
Abhishek Sharma: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Dehradun 248002, India
Gouri Kumar Sahu: Department of Physics, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Bhubaneswar 761211, India
Chun Kit Ang: Faculty of Engineering, Technology and Built Environment, UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur 56000, Malaysia
Wei Hong Lim: Faculty of Engineering, Technology and Built Environment, UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur 56000, Malaysia

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 5, 1-42

Abstract: Biomedical text summarization (BTS) is proving to be an emerging area of work and research with the need for sustainable healthcare applications such as evidence-based medicine practice (EBM) and telemedicine which help effectively support healthcare needs of the society. However, with the rapid growth in the biomedical literature and the diversities in its structure and resources, it is becoming challenging to carry out effective text summarization for better insights. The goal of this work is to conduct a comprehensive systematic literature review of significant and high-impact literary work in BTS with a deep understanding of its major artifacts such as databases, semantic similarity measures, and semantic enrichment approaches. In the systematic literature review conducted, we applied search filters to find high-impact literature in the biomedical text summarization domain from IEEE, SCOPUS, Elsevier, EBSCO, and PubMed databases. The systematic literature review (SLR) yielded 81 works; those were analyzed for qualitative study. The in-depth study of the literature shows the relevance and efficacy of the deep learning (DL) approach, context-aware feature extraction techniques, and their relevance in BTS. Biomedical question answering (BQA) system is one of the most popular applications of text summarizations for building self-sufficient healthcare systems and are pointing to future research directions. The review culminates in realization of a proposed framework for the BQA system MEDIQA with design of better heuristics for content screening, document screening, and relevance ranking. The presented framework provides an evidence-based biomedical question answering model and text summarizer that can lead to real-time evidence-based clinical support system to healthcare practitioners.

Keywords: text summarization; databases; semantic enrichment; text similarity; biomedical question answering (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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