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Benchmark Data Generation from Discrete Event Contact Network Models
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Historical data are essential for development of detection algorithms. Spatio-temporal data, however, are difficult to come by due to variety of issues concerning patient confidentiality. Several approaches have been used to … read more -
Surveillance in the Cloud: A New Platform for Disease Search and Situational Awareness
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Major challenges in syndromic surveillance today include lack of standardization in syndrome definitions and limited ability to detect outbreaks of specific and rare diseases. To generate situational awareness surveillance results… read more -
High Performance Computing for Disease Surveillance
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Space-time detection of disease clusters can be a computationally intensive task which defies the real time constraint for disease surveillance. At the same time, it has been shown that using exact patient locations, instead of their representative… read more