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Table 3 Results from comparison of ICD10 code VCM icons and MeSH descriptor VCM icons

From: Evaluating alignment quality between iconic language and reference terminologies using similarity metrics

MeSH to VCM relationship

Total (nā€‰=ā€‰1,606)

Manual (nā€‰=ā€‰528)

Automatic (nā€‰=ā€‰1,078)

p

Ā 

Mean/%

[CI95%]

Mean/%

[CI95%]

Mean/%

[CI95%]

Ā 

Concordance

65%

[62.6-67.3]

74.2%

[70.5-78.0]

60.5%

[57.5-63.4]

*ā€‰<ā€‰10-4

DSCCrude

0.90

[0.89-0.90]

0.93

[0.91-0.94]

0.88

[0.87-0.89]

$ā€‰<ā€‰10-4

DSCSemantic

0.93

[0.93-0.94]

0.96

[0.95-0.96]

0.92

[0.92-0.93]

$ā€‰<ā€‰10-4

  1. *: Fisher test. $: Wilcoxon test.