Design: Cross-sectional study of pediatric encounters motivated by cold symptoms between October 1, 2000, and June 30, 2001. Each encounter was videotaped. Physicians completed a postvisit survey that measured whether they perceived the parent as expecting antibiotics. Coded communication variables were merged with survey variables. Multivariate analyses identified key predictors of parent-phys...

In this paper we present a procedure for removing ruling lines from a handwritten document image that does not require any preprocessing or postprocessing tasks and it does not break existing characters. We take advantage of common ruling line properties such as uniform width, predictable spacing, position vs. text, etc. The deletion procedure of the detected ruling line is based on the fact th...