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Data and Text Mining in Analysis of the Emergence of H5N1 Virus Strain
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OBJECTIVE This paper describes a series of data mining techniques used to gather and analyze and disseminate large amounts of data from numerous sources in English as well as Chinese. The objective of the analysis is to attempt to identify locations… read more -
Data Integration and Analytics within the National Bio-Surveillance Integration System
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This presentation introduces the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Bio-Surveillance Integration System (NBIS) and the analytics functionality within the NBIS that integrates and analyzes structured and unstructured data streams… read more -
Data-Adapted Temporal Alerting Algorithms for Routine Health Monitoring
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This paper discusses selection of temporal alerting algorithms for syndromic surveillance to achieve reliable detection performance based on statistical properties and the epidemiological context of the input data. We used quantities calculated from… read more -
Data-Adaptive Multivariate Control Charts for Routine Health Monitoring
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This paper investigates the use of data-adaptive multivariate statistical process control (MSPC) charts for outbreak detection using real-world syndromic data. The widely used EARS [1] methods and other adaptive implementations assume implicitly… read more -
Death Certificate Surveillance in New Hampshire
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The Death Certificate Surveillance was implemented in October 2001 to enhance New Hampshire's ability to monitor for bioterrorism and other public health threats, such as communicable diseases and chemical exposures. In 2003, this surveillance… read more -
Rapid Processing of Ad-Hoc Queries against Large Sets of Time Series
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Time series analysis is very common in syndromic surveillance. Large scale biosurveillance systems typically perform thousands of time series queries per day: for example, monitoring of nationwide over-thecounter (OTC) sales data may require… read more -
Real Time EMS Events as Surrogate Events in Syndromic Surveillance
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Prehospital EMS data is rarely mentioned in discus-sions surrounding syndromic surveillance for covert bio-terrorism attacks or for the … read more -
Real Time Syndromic Surveillance Response to UK Flooding Incident 2007
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Wetter and stormier weather is predicted in the UK as global temperatures rise. It is likely there will be increases in river and coastal flooding. The known short and medium term health effects of flooding are drowning, injury, acute asthma, skin… read more