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VERDICT system enhances chemical structure recognition accuracy

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Researchers have developed a new system called VERDICT that improves the accuracy of Optical Chemical Structure Recognition (OCSR). VERDICT utilizes agreement among multiple recognizers, outperforming pixel-space verification methods. This approach is crucial for building large-scale chemical training datasets from scientific literature by reliably identifying and validating chemical structures. AI

IMPACT Enhances the reliability of chemical structure data extraction from scientific literature, potentially accelerating drug discovery and materials science research.

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VERDICT system enhances chemical structure recognition accuracy

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Kang Xu ·

    VERDICT: Agreement Beats Pixel-Space Verification in Real-Document OCSR

    Optical Chemical Structure Recognition (OCSR) converts 2D molecular depictions in the published literature into SMILES, and is increasingly important for constructing large-scale chemical training datasets. Automation at that scale requires identifying unreliable predictions in t…

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Yani Guan, Dengpan Dong, Shuang Luo, Zi Wei, Joah Han, Dan Hannah, Yumin Zhang, Qichao Hu, Kang Xu ·

    VERDICT: Agreement Beats Pixel-Space Verification in Real-Document OCSR

    arXiv:2608.22183v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Optical Chemical Structure Recognition (OCSR) converts 2D molecular depictions in the published literature into SMILES, and is increasingly important for constructing large-scale chemical training datasets. Automation at that scale …

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