TY - GEN
T1 - The similarity index of character shape of medicine names based on character shape similarity (II)
AU - Nabeta, Keita
AU - Hatano, Akira
AU - Ishida, Hirotsugu
AU - Kimura, Masaomi
AU - Ohkura, Michiko
AU - Tsuchiya, Fumito
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The similarity of drug names in Japanese such as (Amaryl) and (Almarl) causes confusion over drug names and can lead to medical errors. In order to prevent such errors, methods of computing their similarity have been proposed. However, there are no studies that take account of character shape similarity quantitatively. In a previous study, we calculated the character shape similarity by template matching technique and proposed a method of measuring medicine name similarity based on it. Although we obtained a high correlation coefficient between the medicine name similarity values and subjective evaluation, we observed some character pairs that are not similar. In this study, we improved the method of computing the character shape similarity based on the characteristic points of character and compared it with advanced methods.
AB - The similarity of drug names in Japanese such as (Amaryl) and (Almarl) causes confusion over drug names and can lead to medical errors. In order to prevent such errors, methods of computing their similarity have been proposed. However, there are no studies that take account of character shape similarity quantitatively. In a previous study, we calculated the character shape similarity by template matching technique and proposed a method of measuring medicine name similarity based on it. Although we obtained a high correlation coefficient between the medicine name similarity values and subjective evaluation, we observed some character pairs that are not similar. In this study, we improved the method of computing the character shape similarity based on the characteristic points of character and compared it with advanced methods.
KW - Character shape similarity
KW - Medical safety
KW - Medicine name similarity
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-21602-2_68
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-21602-2_68
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79960318262
SN - 9783642216015
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 628
EP - 636
BT - Human-Computer Interaction
T2 - 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2011
Y2 - 9 July 2011 through 14 July 2011
ER -