Public Health & Policy

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

8,642 articles

Management practices associated with strongylid parasite prevalence on horse farms in rural counties of Kentucky.

Anthelmintic resistance among cyathostomin parasites is a wide-spread problem. The parasite control ...

Aug 2018 31014733

Automated deep-neural-network surveillance of cranial images for acute neurologic events.

Rapid diagnosis and treatment of acute neurological illnesses such as stroke, hemorrhage, and hydroc...

Aug 2018 30104767

Predicting Infectious Disease Using Deep Learning and Big Data.

Infectious disease occurs when a person is infected by a pathogen from another person or an animal. ...

Jul 2018 30060525

Utilizing Big Data in Cancer Care.

Clinical research has boomed over the past decade, with the development of multiple clinical dataset...

Jul 2018 30213409

Extracting psychiatric stressors for suicide from social media using deep learning.

BACKGROUND: Suicide has been one of the leading causes of deaths in the United States. One major cau...

Jul 2018 30066665

Natural Language Processing and Its Implications for the Future of Medication Safety: A Narrative Review of Recent Advances and Challenges.

The safety of medication use has been a priority in the United States since the late 1930s. Recently...

Jul 2018 29884988

A machine learning method to monitor China's AIDS epidemics with data from Baidu trends.

BACKGROUND: AIDS is a worrying public health issue in China and lacks timely and effective surveilla...

Jul 2018 29995920

Public Perception Analysis of Tweets During the 2015 Measles Outbreak: Comparative Study Using Convolutional Neural Network Models.

BACKGROUND: Timely understanding of public perceptions allows public health agencies to provide up-t...

Jul 2018 29986843

Vasopressin antagonist-like effect of acetazolamide in a heart failure patient: a case report.

BACKGROUND: Hyponatraemia is easily corrected by treatment with an oral vasopressin antagonist, but ...

Jul 2018 31020154

Mapping the transmission risk of Zika virus using machine learning models.

Zika virus, which has been linked to severe congenital abnormalities, is exacerbating global public ...

Jun 2018 29932934

Accuracy of using natural language processing methods for identifying healthcare-associated infections.

OBJECTIVE: There is a growing interest in using natural language processing (NLP) for healthcare-ass...

Jun 2018 30032970

Intelligent Network DisRuption Analysis (INDRA): A targeted strategy for efficient interruption of hepatitis C transmissions.

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a global public health problem. The implementation of public he...

May 2018 29860098

Sarcopenia: Beyond Muscle Atrophy and into the New Frontiers of Opportunistic Imaging, Precision Medicine, and Machine Learning.

As populations continue to age worldwide, the impact of sarcopenia on public health will continue to...

May 2018 29791959

Screening for active pulmonary tuberculosis: Development and applicability of artificial neural network models.

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant public health challenge, motivated by the diversity of healt...

May 2018 30029922

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