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ArticleJournal of biomedical informatics2010

A new pivoting and iterative text detection algorithm for biomedical images.

Songhua Xu, Michael Krauthammer

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Article in Journal of biomedical informatics, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Mining biomedical images towards valuable information retrieval in biomedical and life sciences.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2016
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  4. Finding and accessing diagrams in biomedical publications.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2012
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Songhua XuOak Ridge National Laboratory, One Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA.
Michael Krauthammer

Funding

MEDICAL INFORMATICS RESEARCH TRAINING AT YALET15LM007056 · NLM · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Mark Bender Gerstein, LUCILA OHNO-MACHADO · 1987 to 2026
$22.2M
Advancing Literature Mining through Image Processing and AnalysisR01LM009956 · NLM · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI KRAUTHAMMER, MICHAEL · 2009 to 2011
$996k
Text Mining as a Translational Tool in BiomedicineK22LM009255 · NLM · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI KRAUTHAMMER, MICHAEL · 2006 to 2008
$440k
NLM NIH HHS 1R01LM009956NLM NIH HHS 5K22LM009255NLM NIH HHS K22 LM009255NLM NIH HHS R01 LM009956NLM NIH HHS T15 LM007056
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is interest to expand the reach of literature mining to include the analysis of biomedical images, which often contain a paper's key findings. Examples include recent studies that use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to extract image text, which is used to boost biomedical image retrieval and classification. Such studies rely on the robust identification of text elements in biomedical images, which is a non-trivial task. In this work, we introduce a new text detection algorithm for biomedical images based on iterative projection histograms. We study the effectiveness of our algorithm by evaluating the performance on a set of manually labeled random biomedical images, and compare the performance against other state-of-the-art text detection algorithms. We demonstrate that our projection histogram-based text detection approach is well suited for text detection in biomedical images, and that the iterative application of the algorithm boosts performance to an F score of .60. We provide a C++ implementation of our algorithm freely available for academic use.

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AlgorithmsImage Interpretation, Computer-AssistedInformation Storage and RetrievalPattern Recognition, Automated

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PMID20887803
PMCPMC3265968

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