Aziz U R Asghar, Murat Aksoy, Alison I Graham, Heidi A Baseler
Developing research skills in medical students online using an active research study
BMC medical education
lowmiddle income countries healthcare providers primarily use paper health records capturing data paper health records utilized predominately due prohibitive cost acquisition maintenance automated data capture devices electronic medical records data recorded paper health records easily accessible digital format healthcare providers lack real time accessible digital data limits healthcare providers researchers quality improvement champions leverage data improve patient outcomes project demonstrate novel use computer vision software digitize handwritten intraoperative data elements smartphone photographs paper anesthesia charts university teaching hospital kigali specifically report approach digitize checkbox data symboldenoted systolic diastolic blood pressure physiological data implemented approaches removing perspective distortions smartphone photographs removing shadows improving image readability morphological operations yolov8 models used deconstruct anesthesia paper chart specific data sections handwritten blood pressure symbols physiological data identified values assigned using deep neural networks work builds upon contributions previous research improving upon methods updating deep learning models newer architectures well consolidating single piece software model extracting sections anesthesia paper chart achieved average box precision 099 average box recall 099 map0595 097 software digitizes checkbox data greater 99 accuracy digitizes blood pressure data mean average error 10 136 mmhg systolic diastolic blood pressure respectively overall accuracy physiological data includes oxygen saturation inspired oxygen concentration end tidal carbon dioxide concentration 852 demonstrate normal photography conditions digitize checkbox blood pressure physiological data within human accuracy provided legible handwriting contributions provide improved access digital data healthcare practitioners lowmiddle income countries