BACKGROUND: Recent reports of the National Ministry of Health and Treatment of Iran (NMHT) show that Gilan has a higher annual incidence rate of leptospirosis than other provinces across the country. Despite several efforts of the government and NMHT...
Climate change has been described to raise outbreaks of water-born infectious diseases and increases public health concerns. This study aimed at finding out these impacts on cholera infections by using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) from 2021 to 2...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Sep 6, 2019
BACKGROUND: Kidney allocation is a multi-criteria and complex decision-making problem, which should also consider ethical issues in addition to the medical aspects. Leading countries in this field use a point scoring system to allocate kidneys. Hence...
The early and accurately detection of brucellosis incidence change is of great importance for implementing brucellosis prevention strategic health planning. The present study investigated and compared the performance of the three data mining techniqu...
Environmental monitoring and assessment
Jun 28, 2019
Air pollution is a major concern in some megacities of Iran. Specific cities in the country have reached an extremely harmful level of air pollution which poses a serious risk to the daily lives of Iranians. According to news reports, the air quality...
International journal of biometeorology
May 22, 2019
Clustering algorithms are critical data mining techniques used to analyze a wide range of data. This study compares the utility of ant colony optimization (ACO), genetic algorithm (GA), and K-means methods to cluster climatic variables affecting the ...
Environmental monitoring and assessment
May 19, 2019
Rivers, as the most prominent component of water resources, have a key role to play in increasing the life expectancy of living creatures. The essential characteristics of water pollutants can be described by water quality indices (WQIs). Hence, a fe...
In the terrestrial ecosystems, perennial challenges of increased frequency and intensity of wildfires are exacerbated by climate change and unplanned human activities. Development of robust management and suppression plans requires accurate estimates...
Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease found wherever human is in direct or indirect contact with contaminated water and environment. Considering the increasing number of cases of this disease in the northern part of Iran, identifying areas characterize...
Approximately 300 million people are afflicted with asthma around the world, with the estimated death rate of 250,000 cases, indicating the significance of this disease. If not treated, it can turn into a serious public health problem. The best metho...