Charts are useful communication tools for the presentation of data in a visually appealing
format that facilitates comprehension. There have been many studies dedicated to chart …

Document parsing is essential for converting unstructured and semi-structured documents-
such as contracts, academic papers, and invoices-into structured, machine-readable data …

Nanosensors have rapidly become a technology of choice across diverse fields. They offer
effective affordable options for detecting and measuring chemical and physical properties in …

Motivation Images convey essential information in biomedical publications. As such, there is
a growing interest within the bio-curation and the bio-databases communities, to store …

PURPOSE: Medical images are a significant information source for clinical decision-making.
Currently available information retrieval and decision support systems rely primarily on the …

Biomedical images are often referenced for clinical decision support (CDS), educational
purposes, and research. The task of automatically finding the images in a scientific article …

Journal images represent an important part of the knowledge stored in the medical literature.
Figure classification has received much attention as the information of the image types can …

After region segmentation, it is necessary to identify the functional labels of the segmented
regions. This is because OCR engines can only consider text regions. Presence of non-text …

The figures included in many of the biomedical publications play an important role in
understanding the biological experiments and facts described within. Recent studies have …

Objectives: An increasing number of articles are published electronically in the scientific
literature, but access is limited to alphanumerical search on title, author, or abstract, and may …