Public Health & Policy

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

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XGBoost-Based Framework for Smoking-Induced Noncommunicable Disease Prediction.

Smoking-induced noncommunicable diseases (SiNCDs) have become a significant threat to public health ...

Sep 2020 32906777

Deep Learning Using Chest Radiographs to Identify High-Risk Smokers for Lung Cancer Screening Computed Tomography: Development and Validation of a Prediction Model.

BACKGROUND: Lung cancer screening with chest computed tomography (CT) reduces lung cancer death. Cen...

Sep 2020 32866413

Robotic environmental DNA bio-surveillance of freshwater health.

Autonomous water sampling technologies may help to overcome the human resource challenges of monitor...

Sep 2020 32873867

[The use of artificial neural networks to classify the social vulnerability of municipalities in Rio Grande do Norte State, Brazil].

The objective was to apply artificial neural networks to classify municipalities (counties) in Rio G...

Aug 2020 32876125

Pandemic number five - Latest insights into the COVID-19 crisis.

About nine months after the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, this special issue of the Biomedical Journal ta...

Aug 2020 32967801

Deep Learning-Based Real-Time Multiple-Person Action Recognition System.

Action recognition has gained great attention in automatic video analysis, greatly reducing the cost...

Aug 2020 32842485

The Greatest Challenge to Using AI/ML for Primary Health Care: Mindset or Datasets?

The global vision for primary health care (PHC) is defined by regular access to quality care for com...

Aug 2020 33733170

Efficient and Effective Training of COVID-19 Classification Networks With Self-Supervised Dual-Track Learning to Rank.

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has rapidly spread worldwide since first reported. Timely diagno...

Aug 2020 32816680

Development of a clinical decision support system for severity risk prediction and triage of COVID-19 patients at hospital admission: an international multicentre study.

BACKGROUND: The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has globally strained medical resour...

Aug 2020 32616597

Real-Time Forecasting of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Chinese Provinces: Machine Learning Approach Using Novel Digital Data and Estimates From Mechanistic Models.

BACKGROUND: The inherent difficulty of identifying and monitoring emerging outbreaks caused by novel...

Aug 2020 32730217

Characteristics of Twitter Use by State Medicaid Programs in the United States: Machine Learning Approach.

BACKGROUND: Twitter is a potentially valuable tool for public health officials and state Medicaid pr...

Aug 2020 32804085

Artificial Intelligence and Suicide Prevention: A Systematic Review of Machine Learning Investigations.

Suicide is a leading cause of death that defies prediction and challenges prevention efforts worldwi...

Aug 2020 32824149

Machine Learning Classifiers for Twitter Surveillance of Vaping: Comparative Machine Learning Study.

BACKGROUND: Twitter presents a valuable and relevant social media platform to study the prevalence o...

Aug 2020 32784184

The Biopolitics of Social Distancing.

As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, new technologies are being leveraged to enforce social distanc...

Aug 2020 34192024

A fully automatic deep learning system for COVID-19 diagnostic and prognostic analysis.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread globally, and medical resources become insufficient i...

Aug 2020 32444412

AI-Enabled Wearable and Flexible Electronics for Assessing Full Personal Exposures.

Research on the exposome has been extended to personal exposures, and full assessment of personal ex...

Aug 2020 34557709

Applying Machine Learning Models with An Ensemble Approach for Accurate Real-Time Influenza Forecasting in Taiwan: Development and Validation Study.

BACKGROUND: Changeful seasonal influenza activity in subtropical areas such as Taiwan causes problem...

Aug 2020 32755888

Artificial intelligence mobile health platform for early detection of COVID-19 in quarantine subjects using a wearable biosensor: protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

INTRODUCTION: There is an outbreak of COVID-19 worldwide. As there is no effective therapy or vaccin...

Jul 2020 32699167

Using deep learning to predict the hand-foot-and-mouth disease of enterovirus A71 subtype in Beijing from 2011 to 2018.

Hand-foot-and-month disease (HFMD), especially the enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) subtype, is a major heal...

Jul 2020 32699245

Deep-COVID: Predicting COVID-19 from chest X-ray images using deep transfer learning.

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing a major outbreak in more than 150 countries around the world, havin...

Jul 2020 32781377

Using machine learning to predict risk of incident opioid use disorder among fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries: A prognostic study.

OBJECTIVE: To develop and validate a machine-learning algorithm to improve prediction of incident OU...

Jul 2020 32678860