Binarization and cleanup of handwritten text from carbon copy medical form images

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1308-1315

  Milewski, Robert ^a   Govindaraju, Venu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PIXELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

HEALTH SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS;

IMAGE RECOGNITION;

EID: 36849056693     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2007.08.018     Document Type: Article

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