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BIOSURVEILLANCE
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Syndromic Surveillance for Early Detection of Nosocomial Outbreaks
Kiyoshi Kikuchi, Yasushi Ohkusa, Tamie Sugawara, K...
BIOSURVEILLANCE
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
High Performance Computing for Disease Surveillance
Abstract. The global health, threatened by emerging infectious diseases, pandemic influenza, and biological warfare, is becoming increasingly dependent on the rapid acquisition, p...
David W. Bauer, Brandon W. Higgs, Mojdeh Mohtashem...
BIOSURVEILLANCE
2007
Springer
14 years 5 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, ...
BIOSURVEILLANCE
2007
Springer
14 years 5 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
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Study into Detection of Bio-Events in Multiple Streams of Surveillance Data
Abstract. This paper reviews the results of a study into combining evidence from multiple streams of surveillance data in order to improve timeliness and specificity of detection ...
Josep Roure, Artur Dubrawski, Jeff Schneider
BIOSURVEILLANCE
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Assessing Seasonal Variation in Multisource Surveillance Data: Annual Harmonic Regression
A significant proportion of human diseases, spanning the gamut from viral respiratory disease to arthropod-borne macroparasitic infections of the blood, exhibit distinct and stable...
Eric Lofgren, Nina Fefferman, Meena Doshi, Elena N...
BIOSURVEILLANCE
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Detecting Conserved RNA Secondary Structures in Viral Genomes: The RADAR Approach
Abstract. Conserved regions, or motifs, present among RNA secondary structures serve as a useful indicator for predicting the functionality of the RNA molecules. Automated detectio...
Mugdha Khaladkar, Jason T. L. Wang