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title = "Automated Digitization of Unstructured Medical Prescriptions",
author = "Sharma, Megha and
Vatsal, Tushar and
Merugu, Srujana and
Rajan, Aruna",
editor = "Sitaram, Sunayana and
Beigman Klebanov, Beata and
Williams, Jason D",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 5: Industry Track)",
month = jul,
year = "2023",
address = "Toronto, Canada",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-industry.76",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.acl-industry.76",
pages = "794--805",
abstract = "Automated digitization of prescription images is a critical prerequisite to scale digital healthcare services such as online pharmacies. This is challenging in emerging markets since prescriptions are not digitized at source and patients lack the medical expertise to interpret prescriptions to place orders. In this paper, we present prescription digitization system for online medicine ordering built with minimal supervision. Our system uses a modular pipeline comprising a mix of ML and rule-based components for (a) image to text extraction, (b) segmentation into blocks and medication items, (c) medication attribute extraction, (d) matching against medicine catalog, and (e) shopping cart building. Our approach efficiently utilizes multiple signals like layout, medical ontologies, and semantic embeddings via LayoutLMv2 model to yield substantial improvement relative to strong baselines on medication attribute extraction. Our pipeline achieves +5.9{\%} gain in precision@3 and +5.6{\%} in recall@3 over catalog-based fuzzy matching baseline for shopping cart building for printed prescriptions.",
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%A Sharma, Megha
%A Vatsal, Tushar
%A Merugu, Srujana
%A Rajan, Aruna
%Y Sitaram, Sunayana
%Y Beigman Klebanov, Beata
%Y Williams, Jason D.
%S Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 5: Industry Track)
%D 2023
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
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%X Automated digitization of prescription images is a critical prerequisite to scale digital healthcare services such as online pharmacies. This is challenging in emerging markets since prescriptions are not digitized at source and patients lack the medical expertise to interpret prescriptions to place orders. In this paper, we present prescription digitization system for online medicine ordering built with minimal supervision. Our system uses a modular pipeline comprising a mix of ML and rule-based components for (a) image to text extraction, (b) segmentation into blocks and medication items, (c) medication attribute extraction, (d) matching against medicine catalog, and (e) shopping cart building. Our approach efficiently utilizes multiple signals like layout, medical ontologies, and semantic embeddings via LayoutLMv2 model to yield substantial improvement relative to strong baselines on medication attribute extraction. Our pipeline achieves +5.9% gain in precision@3 and +5.6% in recall@3 over catalog-based fuzzy matching baseline for shopping cart building for printed prescriptions.
%R 10.18653/v1/2023.acl-industry.76
%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-industry.76
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%P 794-805
Markdown (Informal)
[Automated Digitization of Unstructured Medical Prescriptions](https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-industry.76) (Sharma et al., ACL 2023)
ACL
- Megha Sharma, Tushar Vatsal, Srujana Merugu, and Aruna Rajan. 2023. Automated Digitization of Unstructured Medical Prescriptions. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 5: Industry Track), pages 794–805, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.