Anatomical Sketch Understanding: Recognizing Explicit and Implicit Structure

Sketching is ubiquitous in medicine. Physicians commonly use sketches as part of their note taking in patient records and to help convey diagnoses and treatments to patients. Medical students frequently use sketches to help them think through clinical problems in individual and group problem solving. Applications ranging from automated patient records to medical education software could benefit greatly from the richer and more natural interfaces that would be enabled by the ability to understand sketches. In this paper we take the first steps toward developing a system that can understand anatomical sketches. Understanding an anatomical sketch requires the ability to recognize what anatomical structure has been sketched and from what view (e.g. parietal view of the brain), as well as to identify the anatomical parts and their locations in the sketch (e.g. parts of the brain), even if they have not been explicitly drawn. We present novel algorithms for sketch recognition and for part ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: AIME
• Authors: Peter Haddawy, Matthew N. Dailey, Ploen Kaewruen, Natapope Sarakhette
• Keywords: AIME 2005, Anatomical, Artificial Intelligence, Medical Students, Patient Records