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Automated detection of data entry errors in a real time surveillance system
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Real-Time Biosurveillance Program (RTBP) introduces modern surveillance technology to health departments in Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu, India. Triage data from each patient visit (basic demographics, signs, symptoms, preliminary… read more… done by medical professionals in India, but in Sri Lanka, due to staffing constraints, the same duty is performed by … rates between the two locations. Most of such issues are due to systematic and subjectivemisinterpretations of the … done by medical professionals in India, but in Sri Lanka, due to staffing constraints, the same duty is performed by … -
Challenges of introducing disease surveillance technology in developing countries: experiences from India and Sri Lanka
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Modern information and communication technologies have increasingly prominent roles in health care systems. To capitalize on attainable benefits, it is essential to thoroughly and purposefully weave them into the existing business … read more… system like RTBP in a developing country requires a top-down- bottom-up, iterative, use-case-oriented approach. … -
Detection of multiple overlapping anomalous clusters in categorical data
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Syndromic surveillance typically involves collecting time-stamped transactional data, such as patient triage or examination records or pharmacy sales. Such records usually span multiple categorical features, such as location, age… read more… of values along each categorical dimension. As evaluating all possible outbreak hypotheses can be computationally … of values along each categorical dimension. As evaluating all possible outbreak hypotheses can be computationally … Reports3. The data stores patient visits spanning 26 regions and 9 diseases reported over 2.5 years. We … -
Learning Specific Detectors of Adverse Events in Multivariate Time Series
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This paper describes how powerful detectors of adverse events manifested in multivariate series of bio-surveillance data can be learned using only a few labeled instances of such events.… indicate that Fisher’s aggregation substantially improves de- tection power (timeliness as well as alert frequency) … LNCS Vol. 4506, Springer-Verlag, 2007. [3] L. Wasserman. All of Statistics. Springer, 2004. [4] A. Dubrawski, K. …