A systematic review of data mining and machine learning for air pollution epidemiology.

Journal: BMC public health
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Data measuring airborne pollutants, public health and environmental factors are increasingly being stored and merged. These big datasets offer great potential, but also challenge traditional epidemiological methods. This has motivated the exploration of alternative methods to make predictions, find patterns and extract information. To this end, data mining and machine learning algorithms are increasingly being applied to air pollution epidemiology.

Authors

  • Colin Bellinger
    Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. cbelling@ualberta.ca.
  • Mohomed Shazan Mohomed Jabbar
    Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
  • Osmar Zaiane
    Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  • Alvaro Osornio-Vargas
    Department of Paediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonto, Canada.