Background Providers have been reluctant to disclose patient data for public-health purposes. Even if patient privacy is ensured, the desire to protect provider confidentiality h...
Khaled El Emam, Jun Hu, Jay Mercer, Liam Peyton, M...
1 Quickly detecting an unexpected pathogen can save many lives. In cases of bioterrorism or naturally occurring epidemics, accurate diagnoses may not be made until much of the popu...
The distribution of illnesses reported by emergency departments from hospitals in a region under surveillance is particularly informative for the early detection of epidemics. The...
Early, reliable detection of disease outbreaks is a critical problem today. This paper reports an investigation of the use of causal Bayesian networks to model spatio-temporal pat...
Gregory F. Cooper, Denver Dash, John Levander, Wen...