Keyword spotting in doctor's handwriting on medical prescriptions

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Highlights：

• Tandem model is proposed to improve traditional HMM-based word spotting schemes.

• A novel scheme towards automatic transcription of handwritten medical prescription.

• Printed text information from prescription is used to improve the performance.

• Robustness of Tandem feature is shown in multiple scripts.

摘要

•Tandem model is proposed to improve traditional HMM-based word spotting schemes.•A novel scheme towards automatic transcription of handwritten medical prescription.•Printed text information from prescription is used to improve the performance.•Robustness of Tandem feature is shown in multiple scripts.

论文关键词：Word spotting,Printed/handwritten text separation,Knowledge extraction,Hidden Markov model,Medical prescriptions

论文评审过程：Received 6 February 2016, Revised 2 December 2016, Accepted 24 January 2017, Available online 31 January 2017, Version of Record 7 February 2017.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.01.027