Intelligence and Security Informatics: Biosurveillance: Second NSF Workshop, BioSurveillance 2007, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, May 22, 2007, Proceedings (Lecture ... Applications, incl. Internet Web, and HCI)

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Assessing Seasonal Variation in Multisource Surveillance Data: Annual Harmonic Regression....Pages 114-123
A Study into Detection of Bio-Events in Multiple Streams of Surveillance Data....Pages 124-133
A Web-Based System for Infectious Disease Data Integration and Sharing: Evaluating Outcome, Task Performance Efficiency, User Information Satisfaction, and Usability....Pages 134-146
Public Health Affinity Domain: A Standards-Based Surveillance System Solution....Pages 147-158
The Influenza Data Summary: A Prototype Application for Visualizing National Influenza Activity....Pages 159-168
Global Foot-and-Mouth Disease Surveillance Using BioPortal....Pages 169-179
Utilization of Predictive Mathematical Epidemiological Modeling in Crisis Preparedness Exercises....Pages 180-189
Early Outbreak Detection Using an Automated Data Feed of Test Orders from a Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory....Pages 1-10
Chinese Chief Complaint Classification for Syndromic Surveillance....Pages 11-22
Incorporating Geographical Contacts into Social Network Analysis for Contact Tracing in Epidemiology: A Study on Taiwan SARS Data....Pages 23-36
A Model for Characterizing Annual Flu Cases....Pages 37-46
Population Dynamics in the Elderly: The Need for Age-Adjustment in National BioSurveillance Systems....Pages 47-58
Data Classification for Selection of Temporal Alerting Methods for Biosurveillance....Pages 59-70
High Performance Computing for Disease Surveillance....Pages 71-78
Towards Real Time Epidemiology: Data Assimilation, Modeling and Anomaly Detection of Health Surveillance Data Streams....Pages 79-90
Algorithm Combination for Improved Performance in Biosurveillance Systems....Pages 91-102
Decoupling Temporal Aberration Detection Algorithms for Enhanced Biosurveillance....Pages 103-113
Ambulatory e-Prescribing: Evaluating a Novel Surveillance Data Source....Pages 190-195
Detecting the Start of the Flu Season....Pages 196-201
Syndromic Surveillance for Early Detection of Nosocomial Outbreaks....Pages 202-208
A Bayesian Biosurveillance Method That Models Unknown Outbreak Diseases....Pages 209-215
Spatial Epidemic Patterns Recognition Using Computer Algebra....Pages 216-221
Detecting Conserved RNA Secondary Structures in Viral Genomes: The RADAR Approach....Pages 222-227
Gemina: A Web-Based Epidemiology and Genomic Metadata System Designed to Identify Infectious Agents....Pages 228-229
Internet APRS Data Utilization for Biosurveillance Applications....Pages 230-231
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