Public Health

Artificial intelligence enabled preliminary diagnosis for COVID-19 from voice cues and questionnaires.

The COVID-19 outbreak was announced as a global pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2...

Commentary: Towards machine learning-enabled epidemiology.

Intersections of machine learning and epidemiological methods for health services research.

The field of health services research is broad and seeks to answer questions about the health care s...

Ensemble modelling in descriptive epidemiology: burden of disease estimation.

Ensemble modelling is a quantitative method that combines information from multiple individual model...

End-stage renal disease at dialysis initiation: Epidemiology and mortality risks during the first year of hemodialysis.

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) treated by hemodialysis (HD) is a worldwide major public health problem...

Predictors of Survival among Male and Female Patients with Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: A Random Survival Forest Analysis of Data from the 2000-2017 Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program.

BACKGROUND: Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a rare and aggressive malignancy with a dismal p...

Comparative Study of Efficacy of Intralesional Purified Protein Derivative (PPD) Versus Intralesional Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) Vaccine in Management of Multiple Viral Warts.

BACKGROUND: Multiple viral warts represent a frustrating challenge for both patients and physicians....

Achieving Equitable Access to Medicines and Health Services: A COVID-19-time Recalled Matter.

In the 21 century, while some people seek to use artificial intelligence for health services deliver...

Clinical Databases for Breast Cancer Research.

Clinical database is a collection of clinical data related to patients, which can be used for analys...

Estimation of COVID-19 epidemic curves using genetic programming algorithm.

This paper investigates the possibility of the implementation of Genetic Programming (GP) algorithm ...

Deep Learning in the Quest for Compound Nomination for Fighting COVID-19.

The current COVID-19 pandemic initiated an unprecedented response from clinicians and the scientific...

Using artificial intelligence to assist radiologists in distinguishing COVID-19 from other pulmonary infections.

BACKGROUND: Accurate and rapid diagnosis of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is crucial for timely qua...

Determination of disease severity in COVID-19 patients using deep learning in chest X-ray images.

PURPOSE: Chest X-ray plays a key role in diagnosis and management of COVID-19 patients and imaging f...

Critical Review of Data Analytics Techniques used in the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI).

BACKGROUND: Immunization is a significant public health intervention to reduce child mortality and m...

[Application of artificial intelligence in prevention and control of COVID-19 in Guangzhou city].

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, it has spread rapidly throughout the country and even in the world. ...

Application of machine intelligence technology in the detection of vaccines and medicines for SARS-CoV-2.

Researchers have found many similarities between the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) v...

Adapting and Extending a Typology to Identify Vaccine Misinformation on Twitter.

To adapt and extend an existing typology of vaccine misinformation to classify the major topics of ...

Portable Automated Surveillance of Surgical Site Infections Using Natural Language Processing: Development and Validation.

OBJECTIVES: We present the development and validation of a portable NLP approach for automated surve...

How Does the Skeletal Oncology Research Group Algorithm's Prediction of 5-year Survival in Patients with Chondrosarcoma Perform on International Validation?

BACKGROUND: The Skeletal Oncology Research Group (SORG) machine learning algorithm for predicting su...

"COVID-19 and the epistemology of epidemiological models at the dawn of AI": comment from the editors.

COVID-19 and the epistemology of epidemiological models at the dawn of AI.

The models used to estimate disease transmission, susceptibility and severity determine what epidemi...