Public Health & Policy

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

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Susceptibility Profiles of Isolates to Streptomycin and Rifampicin in Two Districts of the Eastern Region of Ghana.

. Drug resistance is a major challenge in antibiotic chemotherapy. Assessing resistance profiles of ...

Dec 2016 28070190

Efficacy of tildipirosin metaphylaxis for the prevention of respiratory disease, otitis and mortality in pre-weaned Holstein calves.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of two metaphylactic approaches (long acting anti...

Dec 2016 28093111

Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Causal Inference in Observational Studies.

Estimation of causal effects using observational data continues to grow in popularity in the epidemi...

Dec 2016 27941068

Into the Bowels of Depression: Unravelling Medical Symptoms Associated with Depression by Applying Machine-Learning Techniques to a Community Based Population Sample.

BACKGROUND: Depression is commonly comorbid with many other somatic diseases and symptoms. Identific...

Dec 2016 27935995

Social Media as a Sentinel for Disease Surveillance: What Does Sociodemographic Status Have to Do with It?

INTRODUCTION: Data from social media have been shown to have utility in augmenting traditional appro...

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Dec 2016 28123858

Tackling Missing Data in Community Health Studies Using Additive LS-SVM Classifier.

Missing data is a common issue in community health and epidemiological studies. Direct removal of sa...

Dec 2016 27925597

An Intelligible Risk Stratification Model Based on Pairwise and Size Constrained Kmeans.

Having a system to stratify individuals according to risk is key to clinical disease prevention. Thi...

Nov 2016 27913364

Cancer Care Access and Outcomes for American Indian Populations in the United States: Challenges and Models for Progress.

Low socioeconomic and health care access realities of being American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) i...

Nov 2016 28325240

Quantifying Risk for Anxiety Disorders in Preschool Children: A Machine Learning Approach.

Early childhood anxiety disorders are common, impairing, and predictive of anxiety and mood disorder...

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Nov 2016 27880812

Development of chronic hepatitis B infection in a hepatitis B vaccine responder.

The Hepatitis B vaccine is highly effective for the prevention of hepatitis B (HBV) infection. We re...

Nov 2016 28266264

Marginal zone lymphoma: Associated autoimmunity and auto-immune disorders.

Large epidemiological studies have shown a consistent increased risk for developing lymphoma in the ...

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Nov 2016 28288719

Support vector machine applied to predict the zoonotic potential of E. coli O157 cattle isolates.

Sequence analyses of pathogen genomes facilitate the tracking of disease outbreaks and allow relatio...

Sep 2016 27647883

DRPPP: A machine learning based tool for prediction of disease resistance proteins in plants.

Plant disease outbreak is increasing rapidly around the globe and is a major cause for crop loss wor...

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Sep 2016 27658260

Impact of three task demand factors on simulated unmanned system intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance operations.

The present study investigated how three task demand factors influenced performance, subjective work...

Aug 2016 27557433

The Apollo Structured Vocabulary: an OWL2 ontology of phenomena in infectious disease epidemiology and population biology for use in epidemic simulation.

BACKGROUND: We developed the Apollo Structured Vocabulary (Apollo-SV)-an OWL2 ontology of phenomena ...

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Aug 2016 27538448

Detecting hospital-acquired infections: A document classification approach using support vector machines and gradient tree boosting.

Hospital-acquired infections pose a significant risk to patient health, while their surveillance is ...

Aug 2016 27496862

Applying GIS and Machine Learning Methods to Twitter Data for Multiscale Surveillance of Influenza.

Traditional methods for monitoring influenza are haphazard and lack fine-grained details regarding t...

Jul 2016 27455108

Effects of Fish Oil Supplementation on Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM): A Systematic Review.

CONTEXT: One of the most common complications of pregnancy is gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), w...

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Jul 2016 28191333

Using machine learning to support healthcare professionals in making preauthorisation decisions.

BACKGROUND: Preauthorisation is a control mechanism that is used by Health Insurance Providers (HIPs...

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Jun 2016 27573306

Supporting Regularized Logistic Regression Privately and Efficiently.

As one of the most popular statistical and machine learning models, logistic regression with regular...

Jun 2016 27271738

A MULTICENTER, LONGITUDINAL, INTERVENTIONAL, DOUBLE BLIND RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIAL IN HEMATOPOIETIC CELL TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS RESIDING IN REMOTE AREAS: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE LATE CYTOMEGALOVIRUS PREVENTION TRIAL.

PURPOSE: The logistics of conducting double-blinded phase III clinical trials with participants resi...

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