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Challenges in adapting an natural language processing system for real-time surveillance
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We are developing a Bayesian surveillance system for realtime surveillance and characterization of outbreaks that incorporates a variety of data elements, including free-text clinical reports. An existing natural language processing (… read more… language processing system for real-time surveillance WW Chapman, M Conway, JN Dowling, F-C Tsui, Q Li, LM … Journal 2011, 4:s68. doi: 10.3134/ehtj.10.068 & 2011 WW Chapman et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 7 challenges are caused less by NLP … -
Building an automated Bayesian case detection system
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Current practices of automated case detection fall into the extremes of diagnostic accuracy and timeliness. In regards to diagnostic accuracy, electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) is at one extreme and syndromic surveillance is at… read more… Tsui et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 68 Acknowledgements The project is … Health Threats Journal F-C Tsui et al. 2011, 4:s101 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 69 …