Public Health & Policy

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 - signs, symptoms, findings, diagnoses - recorded by clinicians during patient encounters. These reports contain rich clinical information which can be leveraged for surveillance of disease and occurrence of adverse events. In order to gain meaningful knowledge from these text reports to support surveil...

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 dissemination of accurate, relevant, and up-to-date health information is important for the public to raise awareness and develop risk management strategies. This study investigates Zika virus-related information circulated on Twitter, identifying the patterns of dissemination of popular tweets and t...

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

Historical maps are unique sources of retrospective geographical information. Recently, several map archives containing map series covering large spat...

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 basis. Breaking news of the Zika outbreak for instance...

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. Identifying community characteristics associated with fi...

Structure-function properties of hypolipidemic peptides.

This review addresses the structure-function properties of hypolipidemic peptides. The cholesterol-lowering peptide (lactostatin: IIAEK) operates via ...

Deep neural models for ICD-10 coding of death certificates and autopsy reports in free-text.

We address the assignment of ICD-10 codes for causes of death by analyzing free-text descriptions in death certificates, together with the associated ...

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 inevitability of robots coming to have a larger ro...

A review of machine learning in obesity.

Rich sources of obesity-related data arising from sensors, smartphone apps, electronic medical health records and insurance data can bring new insight...

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 growing rapidly, fueled by availability of large datas...

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. Nowadays, the web can be used for surveillance of dis...

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. Screening is complicated by the fact that the accuracy o...

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-predicting model for EH can help to interpose people'...

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 psychological, physical, and financial suffering from cancer. ...

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 been recommended for accurate estimates of glomerula...

Mutant selection window of four quinolone antibiotics against clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae and Moraxella catarrhalis.

Community-acquired pneumonia and otitis media are caused by several bacterial species, including Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and...

Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) seroprevalence and current epidemiology in England and Wales.

INTRODUCTION: The implementation of the Hib conjugate vaccine in the United Kingdom in 1992 resulted in a rapid decline in invasive Hib disease across...

Identification of significant factors in fatal-injury highway crashes using genetic algorithm and neural network.

Identification of the significant factors of traffic crashes has been a primary concern of the transportation safety research community for many years...

Pathologic Outcomes of Candidates for Active Surveillance Undergoing Radical Prostatectomy: Results from a Contemporary Turkish Patient Cohort.

INTRODUCTION: To evaluate the pathological outcomes of Turkish men meeting the criteria for Active Surveillance (AS), who elected to undergo immediate...

Avian influenza overview September - November 2017.

Between 1 September and 15 November 2017, 48 A(H5N8) highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreaks in poultry holdings and 9 H5 HPAI wild bird ev...