Public Health

Learning epidemic threshold in complex networks by Convolutional Neural Network.

Deep learning has taken part in the competition since not long ago to learn and identify phase trans...

A New Approach to Compare the Performance of Two Classification Methods of Causes of Death for Timely Surveillance in France.

Timely mortality surveillance in France is based on the monitoring of electronic death certificates ...

IDOMEN: An Extension of Infectious Disease Ontology for MENingitis.

In sub-Saharan African countries the prevention and control of epidemic diseases requires the improv...

Artificial neural network-assisted Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy for differentiation of Salmonella serogroups and its application on epidemiological tracing of Salmonella Bovismorbificans outbreak isolates from fresh sprouts.

Salmonellae represent one of the most common bacterial infection reagents in both humans and animals...

Context matters: using reinforcement learning to develop human-readable, state-dependent outbreak response policies.

The number of all possible epidemics of a given infectious disease that could occur on a given lands...

Artificial intelligence estimates the impact of human papillomavirus types in influencing the risk of cervical dysplasia recurrence: progress toward a more personalized approach.

The objective of this study was to determine whether the pretreatment human papillomavirus (HPV) gen...

Childhood Asthma: Advances Using Machine Learning and Mechanistic Studies.

A paradigm shift brought by the recognition that childhood asthma is an aggregated diagnosis that co...

Real-time Epidemic Forecasting: Challenges and Opportunities.

Infectious disease outbreaks play an important role in global morbidity and mortality. Real-time epi...

Safety and Immunogenicity of Two Doses of a Quadrivalent Meningococcal Polysaccharide Diphtheria Toxoid Conjugate Vaccine in Indian and Russian Children Aged 9 to 17 Months.

OBJECTIVE: Evaluation of tolerability, safety and immunogenicity of a two-dose series of a quadrival...

Phylogenomics and Infectious Potential of Avian Avulaviruses Species-Type 1 Isolated from Healthy Green-Winged Teal () from a Wetland Sanctuary of Indus River.

Given the importance of (AAvVs) in commercial poultry, continuous monitoring and surveillance in na...

Predicting reservoir hosts and arthropod vectors from evolutionary signatures in RNA virus genomes.

Identifying the animal origins of RNA viruses requires years of field and laboratory studies that st...

Statistical Learning Methods to Determine Immune Correlates of Herpes Zoster in Vaccine Efficacy Trials.

Using Super Learner, a machine learning statistical method, we assessed varicella zoster virus-speci...

Distribution of main Gram-positive pathogens causing bloodstream infections in United States and European hospitals during the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program (2010-2016): concomitant analysis of oritavancin in vitro activity.

This study updates the distribution and trends of Gram-positive organisms causing bloodstream infect...

[Big data and artificial intelligence for diagnostic decision support in atypical dementia].

The differential diagnosis of atypical dementia remains difficult. The use of positron emission tomo...

Immunogenicity, Safety, and Tolerability of Live Attenuated VaricellaZoster Virus Vaccine (ZOSTAVAX™) in Healthy Adults in India.

BACKGROUND: Herpes zoster (HZ) is caused by varicella-zoster virus ( VZV ) reactivation. In the Unit...

AI surveillance studies need ethics review.

Data-Adaptive Estimation for Double-Robust Methods in Population-Based Cancer Epidemiology: Risk Differences for Lung Cancer Mortality by Emergency Presentation.

In this paper, we propose a structural framework for population-based cancer epidemiology and evalua...

Machine Learning for Healthcare: On the Verge of a Major Shift in Healthcare Epidemiology.

The increasing availability of electronic health data presents a major opportunity in healthcare for...

Mining e-cigarette adverse events in social media using Bi-LSTM recurrent neural network with word embedding representation.

OBJECTIVE: Recent years have seen increased worldwide popularity of e-cigarette use. However, the ri...

[Construction and identification of nanobody phage display library targeting Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus].

Objective To construct a phage display library of specific nano-antibodies against the Middle East r...

Prokaryotic Expression of Hepatitis C Virus-NS3 Protein and Preparation of a Monoclonal Antibody.

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a significant health threat that has been extensively investigated worldw...