Infectious Disease

Public Health

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

6,486 articles
Stay Ahead - Weekly Public Health research updates
Subscribe
Browse Categories
Showing 1881-1900 of 6,486 articles

Detecting borderline infection in an automated monitoring system for healthcare-associated infection using fuzzy logic.

BACKGROUND: Many electronic infection detection systems employ dichotomous classification methods, classifying patient data as pathological or normal with respect to one or several types of infection. An electronic monitoring and surveillance system for healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) known as Moni-ICU is being operated at the intensive care units (ICUs) of the Vienna General Hospital (VGH...

Apr 28 2016 27156053

Transforming Clinical Data into Actionable Prognosis Models: Machine-Learning Framework and Field-Deployable App to Predict Outcome of Ebola Patients.

BACKGROUND: Assessment of the response to the 2014-15 Ebola outbreak indicates the need for innovations in data collection, sharing, and use to improve case detection and treatment. Here we introduce a Machine Learning pipeline for Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) prognosis prediction, which packages the best models into a mobile app to be available in clinical care settings. The pipeline was trained on ...

Mar 18 2016 26991501
Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies (VDOS 2014).

The "Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies" (VDOS) international workshop series focuses on vaccine- and drug-related ontology modeling and applications. ...

Feb 25 2016 26918107
Fusing Data Mining, Machine Learning and Traditional Statistics to Detect Biomarkers Associated with Depression.

BACKGROUND: Atheoretical large-scale data mining techniques using machine learning algorithms have promise in the analysis of large epidemiological da...

Feb 5 2016 26848571
Harnessing information from injury narratives in the 'big data' era: understanding and applying machine learning for injury surveillance.

OBJECTIVE: Vast amounts of injury narratives are collected daily and are available electronically in real time and have great potential for use in inj...

Jan 4 2016 26728004
Endemicity of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-baumannii Complex in an Intensive Care Unit in Malaysia.

Introduction. Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-baumannii complex (ACB complex) is a leading opportunistic pathogen in intensive care units (ICUs). Effectiv...

Dec 27 2015 26819759
OntoStudyEdit: a new approach for ontology-based representation and management of metadata in clinical and epidemiological research.

BACKGROUND: The specification of metadata in clinical and epidemiological study projects absorbs significant expense. The validity and quality of the ...

Dec 18 2015 26688709
Mutagenic Potential ofBos taurus Papillomavirus Type 1 E6 Recombinant Protein: First Description.

Bovine papillomavirus (BPV) is considered a useful model to study HPV oncogenic process. BPV interacts with the host chromatin, resulting in DNA damag...

Dec 9 2015 26783529
A Matter of Perspective: Comparison of the Characteristics of Persons with HIV Infection in the United States from the HIV Outpatient Study, Medical Monitoring Project, and National HIV Surveillance System.

Comparative analyses of the characteristics of persons living with HIV infection (PLWH) in the United States (US) captured in surveillance and other o...

Dec 7 2015 26793282
Clinical course of H1N1-vaccine-related narcolepsy.

OBJECTIVE: To follow and analyze the clinical course and quality of life of Pandemrix H1N1-vaccine-related narcolepsy (pNT1).

Nov 25 2015 27198942
Persistence of Anti-HBs Among Palestinian Medical Students After 18 - 22 Years of Vaccination: A Cross-Sectional Study.

BACKGROUND: Hepatitis B infection is a global public health problem affecting various sectors in the society. Vaccination is the first line measure to...

Nov 7 2015 26834785
Integrated analysis of oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma identifies key variants and pathways linked to risk habits, HPV, clinical parameters and tumor recurrence.

Oral tongue squamous cell carcinomas (OTSCC) are a homogeneous group of tumors characterized by aggressive behavior, early spread to lymph nodes and a...

Nov 5 2015 26834999
Combining Search, Social Media, and Traditional Data Sources to Improve Influenza Surveillance.

We present a machine learning-based methodology capable of providing real-time ("nowcast") and forecast estimates of influenza activity in the US by l...

Oct 29 2015 26513245
Harnessing Computational Biology for Exact Linear B-Cell Epitope Prediction: A Novel Amino Acid Composition-Based Feature Descriptor.

Proteins embody epitopes that serve as their antigenic determinants. Epitopes occupy a central place in integrative biology, not to mention as targets...

Sep 25 2015 26406767
Can Natural Language Processing Improve the Efficiency of Vaccine Adverse Event Report Review?

BACKGROUND: Individual case review of spontaneous adverse event (AE) reports remains a cornerstone of medical product safety surveillance for industry...

Sep 23 2015 26394725
The Large Scale Machine Learning in an Artificial Society: Prediction of the Ebola Outbreak in Beijing.

Ebola virus disease (EVD) distinguishes its feature as high infectivity and mortality. Thus, it is urgent for governments to draw up emergency plans a...

Sep 20 2015 26457078
Synbiotic enhances immune responses against infectious bronchitis, infectious bursal disease, Newcastle disease and avian influenza in broiler chickens.

Increased susceptibility of birds to avian pathogens in intensive husbandry system has emphasized on necessity of improvement of innate and specific i...

Sep 15 2015 26893807
Bit-Scalable Deep Hashing With Regularized Similarity Learning for Image Retrieval and Person Re-Identification.

Extracting informative image features and learning effective approximate hashing functions are two crucial steps in image retrieval. Conventional meth...

Aug 11 2015 26276992
Identifying Adverse Effects of HIV Drug Treatment and Associated Sentiments Using Twitter.

BACKGROUND: Social media platforms are increasingly seen as a source of data on a wide range of health issues. Twitter is of particular interest for p...

Jul 27 2015 27227141
Computational Discrimination of Breast Cancer for Korean Women Based on Epidemiologic Data Only.

Breast cancer is the second leading cancer for Korean women and its incidence rate has been increasing annually. If early diagnosis were implemented w...

Jul 15 2015 26240478
Browse Categories