Public Health & Policy

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

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Artificial intelligence (AI) and cancer prevention: the potential application of AI in cancer control programming needs to be explored in population laboratories such as COMPASS.

Understanding the risk factors that initiate cancer is essential for reducing the future cancer burd...

May 2019 31093860

Time series analysis of human brucellosis in mainland China by using Elman and Jordan recurrent neural networks.

BACKGROUND: Establishing epidemiological models and conducting predictions seems to be useful for th...

May 2019 31088391

Machine learning to refine decision making within a syndromic surveillance service.

BACKGROUND: Worldwide, syndromic surveillance is increasingly used for improved and timely situation...

May 2019 31088446

A machine learning-based approach for predicting the outbreak of cardiovascular diseases in patients on dialysis.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Patients with End- Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD) have a unique cardiovascula...

May 2019 31319965

Perceptions of drones, digital adherence monitoring technologies and educational videos for tuberculosis control in remote Madagascar: a mixed-method study protocol.

INTRODUCTION: Poor road and communication infrastructure pose major challenges to tuberculosis (TB) ...

May 2019 31076475

Proactive Suicide Prevention Online (PSPO): Machine Identification and Crisis Management for Chinese Social Media Users With Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors.

BACKGROUND: Suicide is a great public health challenge. Two hundred million people attempt suicide i...

May 2019 31344675

A Dynamic Part-Attention Model for Person Re-Identification.

Person re-identification (ReID) is gaining more attention due to its important applications in pedes...

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May 2019 31060291

Measuring social, environmental and health inequalities using deep learning and street imagery.

Cities are home to an increasing majority of the world's population. Currently, it is difficult to t...

Apr 2019 31000744

Natural language processing of radiology reports for identification of skeletal site-specific fractures.

BACKGROUND: Osteoporosis has become an important public health issue. Most of the population, partic...

Apr 2019 30943952

Machine Learning Approach to find the relation between Endometriosis, benign breast disease, cystitis and non-toxic goiter.

The exact mechanism of endometriosis is unknown. The recommendation system (RS) based on item simila...

Apr 2019 30932000

Deep learning for identifying environmental risk factors of acute respiratory diseases in Beijing, China: implications for population with different age and gender.

This study focuses on identifying environmental health risk factors related to acute respiratory dis...

Mar 2019 30929473

Booster immunity - diagnosis of chronic hepatitis B viral infection.

INTRODUCTION: Diagnosis of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection particularly its occult form re...

Mar 2019 32040457

Understanding the importance of key risk factors in predicting chronic bronchitic symptoms using a machine learning approach.

BACKGROUND: Chronic respiratory symptoms involving bronchitis, cough and phlegm in children are unde...

Mar 2019 30925901

Chief complaint classification with recurrent neural networks.

Syndromic surveillance detects and monitors individual and population health indicators through sour...

Mar 2019 30926471

Drivers for the development of an Animal Health Surveillance Ontology (AHSO).

Comprehensive reviews of syndromic surveillance in animal health have highlighted the hindrances to ...

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Mar 2019 30935504

Evaluation of Machine-Learning Algorithms for Predicting Opioid Overdose Risk Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Opioid Prescriptions.

IMPORTANCE: Current approaches to identifying individuals at high risk for opioid overdose target ma...

Mar 2019 30901048

Machine Learning Accurately Predicts Short-Term Outcomes Following Open Reduction and Internal Fixation of Ankle Fractures.

Ankle fractures are common orthopedic injuries with favorable outcomes when managed with open reduct...

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Feb 2019 30803914

Tweet Classification Toward Twitter-Based Disease Surveillance: New Data, Methods, and Evaluations.

BACKGROUND: The amount of medical and clinical-related information on the Web is increasing. Among t...

Feb 2019 30785407

Lung Cancer Survival Prediction via Machine Learning Regression, Classification, and Statistical Techniques.

A regression model is developed to predict survival time in months for lung cancer patients. It was ...

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Feb 2019 31312809

Deep Learning-Based Prediction of Drug-Induced Cardiotoxicity.

Blockade of the human ether-à-go-go-related gene (hERG) channel by small molecules induces the prolo...

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Feb 2019 30715873

Artificial Neural Network for in-Bed Posture Classification Using Bed-Sheet Pressure Sensors.

Pressure ulcer prevention is a vital procedure for patients undergoing long-term hospitalization. A ...

Feb 2019 30762571

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