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An Evaluation of Wavelet-Based Techniques for Prediction and Anomaly Detection in Univariate Syndromic Data
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While several authors have advocated wavelets for biosurveillance, there are few published wavelet method evaluations using real syndromic data. Goldenberg et al. performed an analysis using wavelet predictions as a way of detecting a… read more -
An Examination of Syndromic Surveillance for Early Detection of Nosocomial Outbreaks
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So as to be able to detect nosocomial outbreaks at an early stage, we examine the construction of a syndromic surveillance system for inpatients who have fever, respiratory symptoms, diarrhea, vomiting or rash and evaluate its statistical properties. -
An Expectation-Based Scan Statistic for Detection of Space-Time Clusters
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This paper describes a new class of space-time scan statistics designed for rapid detection of emerging disease clusters. We evaluate these methods on the task of prospective disease surveillance, and show that our methods consistently outperform… read more -
An Experimental Fully Automatic Syndromic Surveillance in Japan
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Since we donÃt know when such a disaster may occur, we have to perform this syndromic surveillance routinely, and thus the system should be automatic. Namely, information is drawn from electronic medical records (EMR), and is statistical analyzed,… read more -
An Innovative Design for Conducting Simulation Exercises on Electronic Disease Surveillance System
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In order to be best prepared to identify health events using electronic disease surveillance systems, it is vital for users to participate in regular exercises that realistically simulate how events may present in their system following disease… read more -
Development and pilot study road traffic injury surveillance, Kaduna Nigeria
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Road Traffic Injury is common cause of unintentional injury globally and Low and middle income countries account for 90%of 1.3 million Road Traffic Injury (RTI) deaths. In Africa region, Nigeria accounts for 25% of RTI mortality but has no… read more -
An Open Source Web Services Toolkit for Event Detection Algorithms
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As major disease outbreaks are rare, empirical evaluation of statistical methods for outbreak detection requires the use of modified or completely simulated health event data in addition to real data. Comparisons of different techniques will be more… read more -
An Outbreak Detection Algorithm that Efficiently Performs Complete Bayesian Model Averaging Over All Possible Spatial Distributions of Disease
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Many disease-outbreak detection algorithms, such as control chart methods, use frequentist statistical techniques. We describe a Bayesian algorithm that uses data D consisting of current day counts of some event (e.g., emergency department (ED)… read more