Intelligence and Security Informatics: Biosurveillance: Second NSF Workshop, BioSurveillance 2007, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, May 22, 2007. Proceedings

✍ Scribed by Loren Shaffer, Julie Funk, Päivi Rajala-Schultz, Garrick Wallstrom, Thomas Wittum (auth.), Daniel Zeng, Ivan Gotham, Ken Komatsu, Cecil Lynch, Mark Thurmond, David Madigan, Bill Lober, James Kvach, Hsinchun Chen (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 242
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4506 : Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The 2007 NSF BioSurveillance Workshop (BioSurveillance 2007) was built on the success of the first NSF BioSurveillance Workshop, hosted by the University of Arizona’s NSF BioPortal Center in March 2006. BioSurveillance 2007 brought - gether infectious disease informatics (IDI) researchers and practitioners to discuss selected topics directly relevant to data sharing and analysis for real-time animal and public health surveillance. These researchers and practitioners represented a wide range of backgrounds including but not limited to epidemiology, statistics, applied mathematics, information systems, computer science and machine learning/data mining. BioSurveillance 2007 aimed to achieve the following objectives: (a) review and examine various real-time data sharing approaches for animal and public health s- veillance from both technological and policy perspectives; (b) identify key technical challenges facing syndromic surveillance for both animal and human diseases, and discuss and compare related systems approaches and algorithms; and (c) provide a forum to bring together IDI researchers and practitioners to identify future research opportunities. We are pleased that we received many outstanding contributions from IDI research groups and practitioners from around the world. The one-day program included one invited presentation, 17 long papers, six short papers, and two posters. BioSurveillance 2007 was jointly hosted by: the University of Arizona; University of California, Davis; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; and the University of Washington.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
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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✦ Subjects

Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Computer Communication Networks; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics; Computers and Society; Management of Computing and Information Systems