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BIOSURVEILLANCE
2007
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Syndromic Surveillance for Early Detection of Nosocomial Outbreaks
Kiyoshi Kikuchi, Yasushi Ohkusa, Tamie Sugawara, K...
IKE
2004
13 years 6 months ago
A Knowledge-Based Framework for Deploying Surveillance Problem Solvers
Increased concern about bioterrorism and emerging diseases is driving the development of systems for early epidemic detection. These systems have different requirements than tradit...
David L. Buckeridge, Martin J. O'Connor, Haobo Xu,...
TKDE
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Prospective Infectious Disease Outbreak Detection Using Markov Switching Models
—Accurate and timely detection of infectious disease outbreaks provides valuable information which can enable public health officials to respond to major public health threats in...
Hsin-Min Lu, Daniel Zeng, Hsinchun Chen
BIOSURVEILLANCE
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
A Temporal Extension of the Bayesian Aerosol Release Detector
Early detection of bio-terrorist attacks is an important problem in public health surveillance. In this paper, we focus on the detection and characterization of outdoor aerosol rel...
Xiaohui Kong, Garrick L. Wallstrom, William R. Hog...
AAAI
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Ensemble Forecasting for Disease Outbreak Detection
We describe a method to improve detection of disease outbreaks in pre-diagnostic time series data. The method uses multiple forecasters and learns the linear combination to minimi...
Thomas H. Lotze, Galit Shmueli