Syndromic surveillance using veterinary laboratory data: Data pre-processing and algorithm performance evaluation

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 10, Issue 83, 2013, Pages

  Dórea, Fernanda C ^a   McEwen, Beverly J ^b   McNab, W Bruce ^c   Revie, Crawford W ^a   Sanchez, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Control charts; Laboratory; Outbreak detection; Syndromic surveillance; Temporal aberration detection

Indexed keywords

LABORATORIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM PERFORMANCE; CONTROL CHARTS; CUMULATIVE SUM CHARTS; EXPONENTIAL SMOOTHING; EXPONENTIALLY WEIGHTED MOVING AVERAGE CHART; OUTBREAK DETECTION; PRE-PROCESSING METHOD; SYNDROMIC SURVEILLANCE;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CATTLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EPIDEMIC; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LABORATORY TEST; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MASTITIS; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIMULATION; SYNDROME; VETERINARY MEDICINE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CATTLE DISEASE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; EVALUATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING;

EID: 84877302622     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2013.0114     Document Type: Article

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