Deciphering Doctors' Handwriting using Deep Learning

A practical case

Ignaz Wanders
Towards Data Science
19 min readSep 21, 2019

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We built a bot that automatically reads doctors handwriting on Belgian death certificates with an accuracy of 47% of certificates of the usable data set correctly predicted. The bot supports government officials with the official death registration and allows for a faster such registration.

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