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Validation of Analytic Methods for Combining Evidence Sources in Biosurveillance
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Recent years' informatics advances have increased availability of various sources of health-monitoring information to agencies responsible for disease surveillance. These sources differ in clinical relevance and reliability, and range from… read more… algorithm selection, and hierarchical fusion network training [1]. Subsequent efforts have produced a full … only 39 reported historical events were available for training and calibration of 3 networks designed for fusion … presentation describes advances to formalize the network training, calibrate the component alerting algorithms and … -
Streamlined Development of Analytic Fusion Capability for Health Surveillance
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The motivation for this project is to provide greater situational awareness to DoD epidemiologists monitoring the health of military personnel and their dependents. An increasing number of data sources of varying clinical specificity and timeliness… read more… R packages which provide more comprehensive tools for BN training and development. These results will allow us to … epidemiologists. We employ software tools that build and train Bayesian networks (BNs) to facilitate the development … detect outbreaks with greater accuracy. We use historical training data on the ability to detect outbreaks of …