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Clinical Research Agent V3

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Overview

This paper presents Clinical Research Agent V3, a specialized system for collecting and processing images of clinical documents from public web sources with optical character recognition (OCR) support for Indian healthcare contexts. Building on Clinical Research Agent V1 and Clinical Research Agent V2 .

Key Innovations:
Clinical Image Detection Engine with pattern-based analysis of page context, URL, and alt-text
Document Type Classification for 10 categories of medical documents
Multi-Language OCR Pipeline supporting English and Hindi text extraction with confidence scoring
PHI Detection for Images including Indian-specific identifiers (UHID, MRD, Aadhaar)
The system achieves 88.6% F1 score for clinical image detection, 89% accuracy for document classification, and 94% recall for PHI detection.

Prerequisites

Intermediate Python programming (functions, dictionaries, regex)
Basic understanding of image processing concepts
Familiarity with OCR concepts (helpful but not required)
Understanding of JSON data structures

Learning Outcomes

Implement pattern-based clinical image detection using URL, page content, and alt-text analysis
Build a multi-language OCR pipeline supporting English and Hindi text extraction
Classify medical documents into 10 categories (discharge summaries, prescriptions, lab reports, etc.)
Detect Indian-specific PHI in OCR output (UHID, MRD, Aadhaar, phone numbers)
Process word-level OCR data with bounding boxes and confidence scores
Save structured metadata with clinical scores and detection analysis

Tutorial Info

Type Interactive
Difficulty Intermediate
Duration 30 minutes
Provider Internal
Published Mar 22, 2026
Last Updated May 27, 2026