Public Health & Policy

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

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Prediction of the Vaccine-derived Poliovirus Outbreak Incidence: A Hybrid Machine Learning Approach.

Recently, significant attention has been devoted to vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) surveillance d...

Mar 2020 32193487

Deep learning approaches for sleep disorder prediction in an asthma cohort.

OBJECTIVE: Sleep is a natural activity of humans that affects physical and mental health; therefore,...

Mar 2020 32162565

AI-Driven Tools for Coronavirus Outbreak: Need of Active Learning and Cross-Population Train/Test Models on Multitudinal/Multimodal Data.

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, which was identified in late 2019, requires special atten...

Mar 2020 32189081

Recent Trends and Future Direction of Dental Research in the Digital Era.

The digital transformation in dental medicine, based on electronic health data information, is recog...

Mar 2020 32197311

Could automated machine-learned MRI grading aid epidemiological studies of lumbar spinal stenosis? Validation within the Wakayama spine study.

BACKGROUND: MRI scanning has revolutionized the clinical diagnosis of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). ...

Mar 2020 32164627

Soft Clustering for Enhancing the Diagnosis of Chronic Diseases over Machine Learning Algorithms.

Chronic diseases represent a serious threat to public health across the world. It is estimated at ab...

Mar 2020 32211144

Using Natural Language Processing to improve EHR Structured Data-based Surgical Site Infection Surveillance.

Surgical Site Infection surveillance in healthcare systems is labor intensive and plagued by underre...

Mar 2020 32308875

Ensuring trustworthy use of artificial intelligence and big data analytics in health insurance.

Technological advances in big data (large amounts of highly varied data from many different sources ...

Feb 2020 32284650

Development of an early-warning system for high-risk patients for suicide attempt using deep learning and electronic health records.

Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States (US). An early-warning system (EWS)...

Feb 2020 32080165

Efficient Prediction of Vitamin B Deficiencies via Machine-Learning Using Routine Blood Test Results in Patients With Intense Psychiatric Episode.

BACKGROUND: Vitamin B deficiency is common worldwide and may lead to psychiatric symptoms; however, ...

Feb 2020 32153432

Multimodal Data Analysis of Alzheimer's Disease Based on Clustering Evolutionary Random Forest.

Alzheimer's disease (AD) has become a severe medical challenge. Advances in technologies produced hi...

Feb 2020 32071013

Machine learning for syndromic surveillance using veterinary necropsy reports.

The use of natural language data for animal population surveillance represents a valuable opportunit...

Feb 2020 32023271

Predicting future onset of depression among community dwelling adults in the Republic of Korea using a machine learning algorithm.

Because depression has high prevalence and cause enduring disability, it is important to predict ons...

Jan 2020 32014516

Cancer Prevention Using Machine Learning, Nudge Theory and Social Impact Bond.

There have been prior attempts to utilize machine learning to address issues in the medical field, p...

Jan 2020 32012838

Forecast of Dengue Cases in 20 Chinese Cities Based on the Deep Learning Method.

Dengue fever (DF) is one of the most rapidly spreading diseases in the world, and accurate forecasts...

Jan 2020 31936708

Rapid Assessment of Opioid Exposure and Treatment in Cities Through Robotic Collection and Chemical Analysis of Wastewater.

INTRODUCTION: Accurate data regarding opioid use, overdose, and treatment is important in guiding co...

Jan 2020 31919800

The damage response framework and infection prevention: From concept to bedside.

Hospital-acquired infections remain a common cause of morbidity and mortality despite advances in in...

Jan 2020 31915082

The Detection of Opioid Misuse and Heroin Use From Paramedic Response Documentation: Machine Learning for Improved Surveillance.

BACKGROUND: Timely, precise, and localized surveillance of nonfatal events is needed to improve resp...

Jan 2020 31899451

Unsupervised machine learning for the discovery of latent disease clusters and patient subgroups using electronic health records.

Machine learning has become ubiquitous and a key technology on mining electronic health records (EHR...

Dec 2019 31891765

A Parser to Support the Definition of Access Control Policies and Rules Using Natural Languages.

As a consequence of the epidemiological transition towards non-communicable diseases, integrated car...

Dec 2019 31872307

Annual Report on surveillance for avian influenza in poultry and wild birds in Member States of the European Union in 2018.

Avian influenza (AI) is a viral infectious disease that affects all species of domestic and wild bir...

Dec 2019 32626213