Recoguide: A Medical Report Analyzer

Abstract

Medical reports are critical for the diagnosis, management, and follow-up of patients. However, they contain complex medical terminologies and are in unstructured forms, such as scanned documents or PDFs. This paper presents the development of a framework for the Medical Report Analyser, which aims to automate the extraction, analysis, visualisation, and interpretation of clinical information. The proposed system will convert unstructured reports into a digital format by employing OCR technology, utilise NLP methodologies for insight extraction, and have visualisation tools to present the findings effectively. Furthermore, the analyser applies explainable AI intended to achieve an efficient transformation of complex medical language into simple summaries for patients, while maintaining compliance with HIPAA and GDPR. The current research focuses on analysing the literature discussing the various methods, drawing a line on potential challenges, and inferring an all-around approach regarding improved health care access and clinical decision-making support. The framework is developed to incorporate various types of medical documents including but not limited to radiology reports, pathology results, and discharge summaries; therefore, suitable for various settings in healthcare facilities. Also, the incorporation of state-of-the-art AI strategies will reduce errors in data interpretation and facilitate smooth clinical workflows. Preliminary tests conducted on artificially generated datasets have been able to demonstrate an accuracy higher than 92% in the extracted data and a 25% reduction in the review time of health professionals. This evidence further points toward the applicability of the proposed framework for practical use.

Introduction

The rapid digitization of healthcare has created vast amounts of structured and unstructured medical data, often difficult to interpret by patients and time-consuming for clinicians. Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, particularly Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), offer solutions by converting scanned reports into machine-readable text, extracting clinical information, and enabling semantic analysis. Multimodal models combining text and imaging, along with interactive dashboards and explainable AI, improve interpretation, patient understanding, and clinical decision-making.

The proposed AI-powered Medical Report Analyzer integrates these technologies to automatically extract and analyze medical data, visualize patient metrics with alerts, simplify explanations for patients, ensure security and regulatory compliance, and allow scalable, real-time deployment in clinical settings. Key challenges addressed include interoperability across diverse data formats, real-time processing for emergency care, and integration with existing EHR systems.

The literature review highlights advances in:

• OCR for digitizing handwriting and scanned reports.

• Clinical NLP (BioBERT, ClinicalBERT) for entity extraction, sentiment analysis, and disease-symptom correlation.

• Visualization & Decision Support through dashboards, predictive analytics, and interactive tools.

• Patient-Friendly Explanations using ontologies and generative AI to improve comprehension.

• Security & Privacy using encryption, federated learning, and blockchain.

• Anomaly Detection for abnormal lab results and patient monitoring using ML and deep learning.

• EHR Integration for seamless data sharing and interoperability.

• Explainable AI (XAI) to increase trust, transparency, and regulatory compliance.

• Real-Time Processing via edge computing and GPU acceleration for emergency scenarios.

• Multilingual Support for global healthcare through cross-lingual models and translation.

• Ethical Considerations to reduce bias, ensure equity, and maintain human oversight.

Conclusion

This paper proposes a framework for the Medical Report Analyzer by integrating OCR, NLP, visualization, and explainable AI for enhanced clinical decision support and patient understanding. The automation of processing medical documents by a system that could change the face of health delivery with projected impacts on efficiency and equity. Future work will implement multilingual support by handle non-English reports and integrate predictive analytics for chronic disease management using models like LSTM for time-series forecasting, and conducting large-scale clinical Trials to confirm effectiveness in the real-world setting; additionally, exploration into integration with wearable devices for continuous monitoring, extension into telemedicine applications. Could extend the framework\'s scope. Joint work with Regulatory bodies ensure that compliance will continue.

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Copyright © 2025 Mayur Pillewan , Shobhit Bawangarh, Sumit Jamaiwar, Shounak Sontakke, Sujal Dhote, Sumit Kumbhalkar , Shashank Jagattiwar. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.