Public Health & Policy

Latest AI and machine learning research in public health & policy for healthcare professionals.

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Machine learning identifies signatures of host adaptation in the bacterial pathogen Salmonella enterica.

Emerging pathogens are a major threat to public health, however understanding how pathogens adapt to...

May 2018 29738521

Using machine learning to identify patterns of lifetime health problems in decedents with autism spectrum disorder.

Very little is known about the health problems experienced by individuals with autism spectrum disor...

May 2018 29734508

Solution to Detect, Classify, and Report Illicit Online Marketing and Sales of Controlled Substances via Twitter: Using Machine Learning and Web Forensics to Combat Digital Opioid Access.

BACKGROUND: On December 6 and 7, 2017, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) hosted i...

Apr 2018 29613851

Emerging trends in geospatial artificial intelligence (geoAI): potential applications for environmental epidemiology.

Geospatial artificial intelligence (geoAI) is an emerging scientific discipline that combines innova...

Apr 2018 29665858

Detection of Suicidality in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Developing a Natural Language Processing Approach for Use in Electronic Health Records.

Over 15% of young people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) will contemplate or attempt suicide du...

Apr 2018 29854129

Detecting Opioid-Related Aberrant Behavior using Natural Language Processing.

The United States is in the midst of a prescription opioid epidemic, with the number of yearly opioi...

Apr 2018 29854186

Electronic Surveillance For Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Using Natural Language Processing.

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is a common and costly healthcare-associated inf...

Apr 2018 29854220

Detecting Evidence of Intra-abdominal Surgical Site Infections from Radiology Reports Using Natural Language Processing.

Free-text reports in electronic health records (EHRs) contain medically significant information - si...

Apr 2018 29854116

Understanding the Patterns of Health Information Dissemination on Social Media during the Zika Outbreak.

Social media are important platforms for risk communication during public health crises. Effective d...

Apr 2018 29854148

Map Archive Mining: Visual-Analytical Approaches to Explore Large Historical Map Collections.

Historical maps are unique sources of retrospective geographical information. Recently, several map ...

Apr 2018 31061817

Intelligent judgements over health risks in a spatial agent-based model.

BACKGROUND: Millions of people worldwide are exposed to deadly infectious diseases on a regular basi...

Mar 2018 29558944

Predictors of firearm violence in urban communities: A machine-learning approach.

Interpersonal firearm violence is a leading cause of death and injuries in the United States. Identi...

Mar 2018 29549755

Structure-function properties of hypolipidemic peptides.

This review addresses the structure-function properties of hypolipidemic peptides. The cholesterol-l...

Mar 2018 31353491

Critiquing the Reasons for Making Artificial Moral Agents.

Many industry leaders and academics from the field of machine ethics would have us believe that the ...

Feb 2018 29460081

A review of machine learning in obesity.

Rich sources of obesity-related data arising from sensors, smartphone apps, electronic medical healt...

Feb 2018 29426065

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Radiology: Opportunities, Challenges, Pitfalls, and Criteria for Success.

Worldwide interest in artificial intelligence (AI) applications, including imaging, is high and grow...

Feb 2018 29402533

A review of influenza detection and prediction through social networking sites.

Early prediction of seasonal epidemics such as influenza may reduce their impact in daily lives. Now...

Feb 2018 29386017

A Systematic Machine Learning Based Approach for the Diagnosis of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Risk and Progression.

Prevention and diagnosis of NAFLD is an ongoing area of interest in the healthcare community. Screen...

Feb 2018 29391513

Risk-Predicting Model for Incident of Essential Hypertension Based on Environmental and Genetic Factors with Support Vector Machine.

Essential hypertension (EH) has become a major chronic disease around the world. To build a risk-pre...

Jan 2018 29380342

Prediction of inherited genomic susceptibility to 20 common cancer types by a supervised machine-learning method.

Prevention and early intervention are the most effective ways of avoiding or minimizing psychologica...

Jan 2018 29358382

Cockcroft-Gault, Modification of Diet in Renal Disease, and Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration equations for estimating glomerular filtration rates in cancer patients receiving cisplatin-based chemotherapy.

BACKGROUND: Although the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) equation has be...

Dec 2017 29285426