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Anomaly Pattern Detection for Biosurveillance
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We propose a new method for detecting patterns of disease cases that correspond to emerging outbreaks. Our Anomaly Pattern Detector (APD) first uses a "local anomaly detector" to identify individually anomalous records and then searches over subsets… read more… visiting nearby hospitals with similar symp- toms), and may not be evident by examination of any single record … from Alleg- heny County, PA. Figure 1 plots the detection preci- sion, i.e. the proportion of detected anomalies that … The Bayesian aerosol release detector. Stat. Med., 2007, 26: 5225-5252. Further Information: Daniel B. Neill, …