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Radiographic Surveillance in Children: A System for Monitoring Epidemics Associated with Prominent Respiratory Symptoms
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Yearly epidemics of respiratory diseases occur in children. Early recognition of these and of unexpected epidemics due to new agents or as acts of biological/chemical terrorism is desirable. In this study, we evaluate the ordering of chest… read more -
Rapid Identification of Pneumonias in BioSense Data Using Radiology Text Reports
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BioSense currently receives demographic and chief complaint data from more than 360 hospitals and text radiology reports from 36 hospitals. Detection of pneumonia is an important as several Category A bioterrorism diseases as well as avian influenza… read more -
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 -
Anonymization of Spatial Data by Gaussian Skew: Is Re-Identification Possible?
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To evaluate the robustness of a spatial anonymization algorithm for syndromic surveillance data against a triangulation vulnerability attack. `BACKGROUND We have published an anonymization algorithm that takes precise point locations for patients… read more -
Antiviral Prescription Data to Enhance Influenza Surveillance
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Influenza surveillance provides public health officials and healthcare providers with data on the onset, duration, geographic location, and level of influenza activity in order to guide the local use of interventions. The Influenza Sentinel Provider… read more -
Application of Natural Language Parsers To Syndromic Surveillance
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This paper describes a methodology for applying natural language parsing (NLP) technologies, originally developed for analyzing biomedical journal articles, to the monitoring of emergency department patient charts for infectious diseases of interest. -
Application of Nonlinear Data Analysis Methods to Locating Disease Clusters
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Objective Cluster detection with a mechanism for reducing false alarms and increasing sensitivity. -
Development of Syndrome Definitions for Acute Unintentional Drug and Heroin Overdose
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Nationally, deaths due to opioid overdose have continually increased for the past 15 years . Deaths specifically related to heroin increased more than four-fold between 2002 and 2014. Hospital inpatient discharge data provide information on non… read more