PubMed-supported clinical term weighting approach for improving inter-patient similarity measure in diagnosis prediction

Table 2 - Top ten image finding terms. The PubMed search results indicated that some image finding terms were co-mentioned with HCC very frequently in the abstracts of biomedical journal articles. The conditional probability of “Dysplastic nodule” (0.934) is the highest among all the extracted terms

Rank	Image finding	Conditional probability
1	Dysplastic nodule	0.934
2	Nodule of liver	0.513
3	Equal density (isodense) lesion	0.438
4	Nodular hyperplasia of liver	0.329
5	Solitary necrotic liver nodule	0.259
6	Portal vein thrombosis	0.209
7	Space occupying lesion of liver	0.175
8	Cirrhosis of liver	0.170
9	Hepatic fibrosis	0.082
10	Nontraumatic hemoperitoneum	0.064

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