Automated Digitization of Unstructured Medical Prescriptions (2023.acl-industry)
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| Challenge: | e-commerce prescription ordering is challenging in emerging markets since prescriptions are paper-based, unstructured and often, handwritten. |
| Approach: | They propose a prescription digitization system for online medicine ordering built with minimal supervision. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system achieves +5.9% gain in precision@3 and +5.6% in recall@3 over baselines on medication attribute extraction. |
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