Vol 4 (2007)

Table of Contents

STL and Local Regression for Modeling Disease Surveillance Counts PDF
David E. Anderson, Cheng Zheng, Ross Maciejewski, Ryan Hafen, William S. Cleveland, David S. Ebert, Mourad Ouzzani, Shaun J. Grannis 81
Rapid Identification of Pneumonias in BioSense Data Using Radiology Text Reports PDF
Armen Asatryan, Haobo Ma, Roseanne English, Jerome Tokars 82
A Simple Method of Using Linked Health Data in Syndromic Surveillance PDF
Steven M. Babin, Protagoras N. Cutchis, Nathaniel Tabernero, Lang M. Hung, Joseph Lombardo 83
The Performance of Sub-Syndrome Chief Complaint Classifiers for the GI and RESP Syndromes PDF
Hwa-Gan Chang, Jian-Hua Chen, Dennis G. Cochrane, John R. Allegra, Kathryn Schmit, Jerome I. Tokars, Perry F. Smith 84
Extensibility in Semantic Web Description of Syndromic Surveillance Systems PDF
Bradley D. Chruszcz, Deborah A. Stacey 85
A Space Time Permutation Scan Statistic with Irregular Shape for Disease Outbreak Detection PDF
Marcelo A. Costa, Martin Kulldorff, Renato M. Assuncao 86
Exploring Syndrome Definition by Applying Clustering Methods to Electronic Health Records Data PDF
Samantha F. De Leon, Nicholas Soulakis, Farzad Mostashari 87
Dual Graph Spatial Cluster Detection for Syndromic Surveillance in Networks PDF
Luiz Duczmal, Gladston J. P. Moreira, Sabino J. Ferreira Neto, Ricardo H.C. Takahashi 88
Modifications to Spatial Scan Statistics for Estimated Probabilities at Fine-Resolution in Highly Skewed Spatial Distributions PDF
James Edgerton, Howard Burkom, Michael Leuze 89
Development and Evaluation of a Data-adaptive Algorithm for Univariate Temporal Biosurveillance Data PDF
Yevgeniy Elbert, Howard S. Burkom, Sean P. Murphy, Galit Shmueli 90
Use of Google Earth to Faciliate GIS-Based Decision Support Systems for Arthropod-Borne Diseases PDF
Saul Lozano-Fuentes, Darwin Elizondo-Quiroga, Jose Arturo Faran-Ale, Ildefonso Fernandez-Salas, Barry J. Beaty, Lars Eisen 91
Sensibility and Specificity of Syndromic System for Influenza Based on General Practitioners Network in Gironde, France PDF
G. Gault, S. Larrieu, Loic J. Josseran, B. Jouves, L. Filleul 92
Correlation Between HL-7 Microbiology and Pharmacy Out Patient Data: A Case Study Using Influenza PDF
Amanda K. Goodin, Gosia Kubiak, Craig Nash, Asha Riegodedios 93
Data Integration and Analytics within the National Bio-Surveillance Integration System PDF
Nancy Grady, Jim Jones, Lowell Vizenor, Joe Dudley, Jeanne Marin, Anne Havey, Tom Sabo n@n, Ray Champoux, Robert Hogan, Dennis Beal, Laura Peitersen, Jean Orr, Karl Kropp, Kimothy Smith 94
Defining Clinical Condition Categories for Biosurveillance PDF
Craig Hales, Carol Sniegoski, Jacqueline Coberly, Jerome Tokars 95
Surveillance Zones: Geographic Aggregation of Syndromic Data for Improved Response PDF
Melissa Halm, Mary Carvalho, Anthony Eshofonie, Debo Awosika-Olumo, Raouf Arafat 96
Advanced Querying Features for Disease Surveillance Systems PDF
Mohammad Hashemian, Wayne Loschen, Joseph Lombardo, Colleen Martin, Sanjeev Thomas, Jerome I. Tokars, Jacqueline Coberly 97
Bayesian Network Data Fusion Visualization PDF
Charles Hodanics 98
Construction of an Indicator for Syndromic Surveillance of Gastroenteritis using Data from a General Practitioner Network, Bordeaux, France PDF
A. Jaquet, C. Flamand, B. Jouve, L. Filleul 99
Exception Reporting Systems for 'Flu Like' Syndromes in Scotland PDF
Kimberley Kavanagh, Chris Robertson, Jim McMenamim 100
Structured Information Sharing in Disease Surveillance Systems PDF
Wayne Loschen, Carol Sniegoski, Jacqueline Coberly, Nathaniel Tabernero, Joe Lombardo 101
Comparing Syndromic Surveillances using Two Aspects: Emergency and Telehealth Data Sources PDF
El Sayed Mahmoud, David Calvert 102
Distributed Multi-agent Architecture for Decision Support in Public Health Networks PDF
Z. Mnatsakanyan 103
Delineating Spatial Clusters with Artificial Neural Networks PDF
Gladston J. P. Moreira, Ricardo H.C. Takahashi, Luiz Duczmal 104
Recursive Least Squares Prediction of Syndromic Data for Surveillance PDF
A. H. Najmi 105
A Nonparametric Scan Statistic for Multivariate Disease Surveillance PDF
Daniel B. Neill, Jeff Lingwall 106
Incorporating Learning into Disease Surveillance Systems PDF
Daniel B. Neill 107
Minimizing False Alarms in Syndromic Surveillance PDF
William Peter, Amir H. Najmi, Howard Burkom 108
Correlation between Real-Time BioSense Influenza Indicators and Data from the U.S. Influenza Sentinal Physicians Surveillance Network PDF
Michelle N. Podgornik, Roseanne English, Jerome I. Tokars 109
Designing Epidemiological Networks for Real-world Surveillance Settings PDF
Ben Y. Reis, Kenneth D. Mandl 110
Learning Specific Detectors of Adverse Events in Multivariate Time Series PDF
Josep Roure, Artur Dubrawksi, Jeff Schneider 111
Multivariate Time Series Analyses Using Primitive Univariate Algorithms PDF
Maheshkumar Sabhnani, Artur Dubrawski, Jeff Schneider 112
An Outbreak Detection Algorithm that Efficiently Performs Complete Bayesian Model Averaging Over All Possible Spatial Distributions of Disease PDF
Yanna Shen, Weng-Keen Wong, John D. Levander, Gregory F. Cooper 113
Syndromic Surveillance Case Definition Development Using Recursive Partitioning Techniques for Highly Dimensional Databases PDF
Nicholas Soulakis, Farzad Mostashari, George Hripcsak 114
Surveillance Investigation Tool Development Targeted for Results PDF
David J. Swenson, Christopher Taylor, John Southworth, Ken Dufault 115
A Scan Statistic Based on Anscombe's Variance Stabilization Transformation PDF
Kunihiko Takahashi, Toshiro Tango 116
A Spatial Scan Statistic Scanning Only the Regions with Elevated Risk PDF
Toshiro Tango 117
Earliest Event Detection: A Unique Approach Combining Syndromic Surveillance with Data Mining PDF
Christopher S. Taylor 118
A Nationwide Geo-Referenced Synthesized Agent Database for Infectious Disease Models PDF
W. D. Wheaton, Bernadette Chasteen, James C. Cajka, Justine Allpress, Philip C. Cooley, Laxminarayana Ganapathi, Joseph G. Pratt 119
Evaluation of Spatial Estimation Methods for Cluster Detection PDF
Jian Xing, Howard Burkom, Michael Leuze, James Edgerton, John Copeland, Steve Bloom, Jerome Tokars 121
Performance Characteristics of Control Chart Detection Methods PDF
Jian Xing, Howard Burkom, John Copeland, Steve Bloom, Lori Hutwanger, Jerome Tokars 122
Automatic Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) New Monitoring and Classification PDF
Yulei Zhang, Chunju Tseng, Yan Deng, Hsinchun Chen, Catherine A. Larson, Zack Whedbee, Andres Perez, Mark Thurmond 123