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JGS
2002
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Emerging and vector-borne diseases: Role of high spatial resolution and hyperspectral images in analyses and forecasts
Many infectious diseases that are emerging or transmitted by arthropod vectors have a strong link to landscape features. Depending on the source of infection or ecology of the tran...
Mark L. Wilson
LRE
2006
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A multilingual ontology for infectious disease surveillance: rationale, design and challenges
A lack of surveillance system infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region is seen as hindering the global control of rapidly spreading infectious diseases such as the recent avian H5...
Nigel Collier, Ai Kawazoe, Lihua Jin, Mika Shigema...
BMCBI
2010
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A method for automatically extracting infectious disease-related primers and probes from the literature
Background: Primer and probe sequences are the main components of nucleic acid-based detection systems. Biologists use primers and probes for different tasks, some related to the ...
Miguel García-Remesal, Alejandro Cuevas, Vi...
BMCBI
2008
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Multi-agent systems in epidemiology: a first step for computational biology in the study of vector-borne disease transmission
Background: Computational biology is often associated with genetic or genomic studies only. However, thanks to the increase of computational resources, computational models are ap...
Benjamin Roche, Jean-François Guégan...
WSC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A public health application of data analysis for homeland security
This presentation follows up the talk last year to WINFORMS (The Washington Institute for Operations Research and The Management Sciences) in which an approach developed for the a...
Marjorie Greene, Robert Eek
ICDE
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Augmenting spatio-textual search with an infectious disease ontology
— A system is described that automatically categorizes and classifies infectious disease incidence reports by type and geographic location, to aid analysis by domain experts. It...
Michael D. Lieberman, Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Hana...