Automating data entry for an online biomedical database: a document image analysis application

Author

Thoma, George R.

Author_Institution

U.S. Nat. Libr. of Med., Bethesda, MD, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

20-22 Sep 1999

Firstpage

370

Lastpage

373

Abstract

Creating online bibliographic databases from paper-based journal articles continues to be heavily manual. An R&D center at the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), is developing systems for automating the extraction of information from biomedical journals to create bibliographic records in MEDLINE(R), NLM´s premier online database used worldwide. The first phase of this project has resulted in a system that involves scanning and converting (by OCR) the abstracts that appear in journal articles, while keyboarding the remaining fields. A second generation system is being designed to scan/OCR other fields such as author names, institutional affiliations, page numbers, article titles and others. This system will employ scanning and OCR as well as modules that automatically zone the scanned pages, identify the zones as particular fields, and reformat the field syntax to adhere to conventional practice in MEDLINE

Keywords

bibliographic systems; document image processing; information services; medical information systems; optical character recognition; MEDLINE; OCR; abstract conversion; abstract scanning; article titles; author names; automated data entry; automated information extraction; automatic scanned page zoning; biomedical journals; document image analysis; field syntax reformatting; institutional affiliations; online bibliographic databases; online biomedical database; page numbers; paper-based journal articles; zone identification; Automation; Biomedical imaging; File servers; Image analysis; Image databases; Libraries; Network servers; Optical character recognition software; Text analysis; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Document Analysis and Recognition, 1999. ICDAR '99. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangalore

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0318-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDAR.1999.791801

Filename

791801