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JAMIA
2011
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12 years 9 months ago
A secure protocol for protecting the identity of providers when disclosing data for disease surveillance
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...
HICSS
2005
IEEE
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13 years 12 months ago
Causal Reasoning Engine: An Explanation-Based Approach to Syndromic Surveillance
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...
Benjamin B. Perry, Tim Van Allen
FLAIRS
2003
13 years 7 months ago
Bayesian Classification of Triage Diagnoses for the Early Detection of Epidemics
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...
Robert T. Olszewski
UAI
2004
13 years 7 months ago
Bayesian Biosurveillance of Disease Outbreaks
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...