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UAI
2004
13 years 9 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...
BIOSURVEILLANCE
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Bayesian Biosurveillance Method That Models Unknown Outbreak Diseases
Algorithms for detecting anomalous events can be divided into those that are designed to detect specific diseases and those that are non-specific in what they detect. Specific dete...
Yanna Shen, Gregory F. Cooper
BIOSURVEILLANCE
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Integrating a Commuting Model with the Bayesian Aerosol Release Detector
The Bayesian Aerosol Release Detector (BARD) is a biosurveillance system for detecting and characterizing disease outbreaks caused by aerosol releases of anthrax. A major challenge...
Aurel Cami, Garrick L. Wallstrom, William R. Hogan
AAAI
2008
13 years 9 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
BIOSURVEILLANCE
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Global Foot-and-Mouth Disease Surveillance Using BioPortal
Abstract. The paper presents a description of the FMD BioPortal biosurveillance system (http://fmd.ucdavis.edu/bioportal/) that is currently operating to capture, analyze, and diss...
Mark Thurmond, Andrés Perez, Chunju Tseng, ...