A Deep Learning Approach to Refine the Identification of High-Quality Clinical Research Articles From the Biomedical Literature: Protocol for Algorithm Development and Validation

Wael Abdelkader   ¹ , MSc, MD ;   Tamara Navarro   ¹ , MLiS ;   Rick Parrish   ¹ , Dip T ;   Chris Cotoi   ¹ , BEng, EMBA ;   Federico Germini   ^{1, 2} , MSc, MD ;   Lori-Ann Linkins   ² , MSc, MD ;   Alfonso Iorio   ^{1, 2} , MD, PhD ;   R Brian Haynes   ^{1, 2} , MD, PhD ;   Sophia Ananiadou   ^{3, 4} , BA, DEA, PhD ;   Lingyang Chu   ⁵ , BSc, PhD ;   Cynthia Lokker   ¹ , MSc, PhD

¹ Health Information Research Unit, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

² Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

³ Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

⁴ The Alan Turing Institute, London, United Kingdom

⁵ Department of Computing and Software, Faculty of Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada