A computer vision-based approach for automatically extracting data from bar chart raster images to facilitate meta-analysis of biomedical literature

Alexander Cardaras, Seungjun Kim, Ye Yuan, Itamar Livnat, Ryan T. Yanagihara, Rosita Saul, Gabrielle Montes De Oca, Kai Zheng, Andrew W. Browne

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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0347081
Published: 2026-07-31
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@article{allodium:10.1371/journal.pone.0347081,
  title = {A computer vision-based approach for automatically extracting data from bar chart raster images to facilitate meta-analysis of biomedical literature},
  author = {Alexander Cardaras and Seungjun Kim and Ye Yuan and Itamar Livnat and Ryan T. Yanagihara and Rosita Saul and Gabrielle Montes De Oca and Kai Zheng and Andrew W. Browne},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {PLOS One},
  doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0347081},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0347081}
}

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TY  - JOUR
TI  - A computer vision-based approach for automatically extracting data from bar chart raster images to facilitate meta-analysis of biomedical literature
AU  - Alexander Cardaras
AU  - Seungjun Kim
AU  - Ye Yuan
AU  - Itamar Livnat
AU  - Ryan T. Yanagihara
AU  - Rosita Saul
AU  - Gabrielle Montes De Oca
AU  - Kai Zheng
AU  - Andrew W. Browne
PY  - 2026
JO  - PLOS One
DO  - 10.1371/journal.pone.0347081
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Cardaras, A., Kim, S., Yuan, Y., Livnat, I., Yanagihara, R. T., Saul, R., Oca, G. M. D., Zheng, K., & Browne, A. W. (2026). A computer vision-based approach for automatically extracting data from bar chart raster images to facilitate meta-analysis of biomedical literature. PLOS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0347081

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