Towards real time epidemiology: Data assimilation, modeling and anomaly detection of health surveillance data streams

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4506 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 79-90

  Bettencourt, Luís M A ^a   Ribeiro, Ruy M ^a   Chowell, Gerardo ^a   Lant, Timothy ^b   Castillo Chavez, Carlos ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomaly detection; Bayesian inference; Data assimilation; Interactive visualization; Real time epidemiology; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DATA ACQUISITION; HEALTH; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

ANOMALY DETECTION; BAYESIAN INFERENCE; DATA ASSIMILATION; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION; REAL TIME EPIDEMIOLOGY;

EPIDEMIOLOGY;

EID: 37249001300     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72608-1_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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