Summary of Molnextr: a Generalized Deep Learning Model For Molecular Image Recognition, by Yufan Chen et al.
MolNexTR: A Generalized Deep Learning Model for Molecular Image Recognition
by Yufan Chen, Ching Ting Leung, Yong Huang, Jianwei Sun, Hao Chen, Hanyu Gao
First submitted to arxiv on: 6 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel deep learning model, MolNexTR, is proposed to convert molecular images into machine-readable SMILES strings. This task is challenging due to varied drawing styles and conventions in chemical literature. MolNexTR combines ConvNext and Vision-TRansformer to extract local and global features from molecular images, predicting atoms and bonds simultaneously while understanding layout rules. The model also incorporates symbolic chemistry principles to decipher chirality and abbreviated structures. Advanced algorithms for data augmentation, image contamination, and post-processing enhance the model’s robustness to diverse molecular image styles. MolNexTR achieves superior performance on test sets, with an accuracy rate of 81-97%. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary MolNexTR is a new tool that helps computers understand chemical structures. Chemical structure recognition is important because it lets scientists and doctors study and work with chemicals more easily. Right now, there are many different ways to draw chemical structures, which makes it hard for computers to understand them. MolNexTR uses special computer algorithms to look at pictures of molecules and turn them into a format that computers can read. This helps scientists and doctors do their jobs better. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Data augmentation » Deep learning » Vision transformer
