Automatic classification of diseases from free-text death certificates for real-time surveillance

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Koopman, Bevan ^a   Karimi, Sarvnaz ^a   Nguyen, Anthony ^a   McGuire, Rhydwyn ^b   Muscatello, David ^b   Kemp, Madonna ^a   Truran, Donna ^a   Zhang, Ming ^a   Thackway, Sarah ^b  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Centre for Population Health   (Australia)

Author keywords

Death certificates; Machine learning; Syndromic surveillance

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; DEATH CERTIFICATE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HUMAN; MACHINE LEARNING; NEW SOUTH WALES;

CLASSIFICATION; DEATH CERTIFICATES; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MACHINE LEARNING; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 84937010733     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12911-015-0174-2     Document Type: Article

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