Displaying results 1 - 1 of 1
-
Anomaly Pattern Detection for Biosurveillance
Content Type: Abstract
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… records that are anomalous with respect to the historical dis- tribution of data. However, disease outbreaks typi- … County, PA. Figure 1 plots the detection preci- sion, i.e. the proportion of detected anomalies that were true … The Bayesian aerosol release detector. Stat. Med., 2007, 26: 5225-5252. Further Information: Daniel B. Neill, …