TY - GEN
T1 - Using multi-source web data for epidemic surveillance
T2 - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, SOLI 2010
AU - Luo, Yuan
AU - Zeng, Daniel
AU - Cao, Zhidong
AU - Zheng, Xiaolong
AU - Wang, Youzhong
AU - Wang, Quanyi
AU - Zhao, Huimin
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Timely and effective surveillance is critical for the prevention and control of epidemics. However, due to technical challenges and shortage of human resources, comprehensive and timely data collection required for effective surveillance, especially collection of data about sudden epidemic outbreaks, is still very difficult. In this paper, we propose the use of multi-source web data for epidemic surveillance. We use the 2009 Influenza A (HtNt) pandemic in Beijing as a case study to demonstrate the utility of our proposed approach. Experiments using data from the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDq and several search engines show encouraging results. This case study also has direct practical values in the real setting.
AB - Timely and effective surveillance is critical for the prevention and control of epidemics. However, due to technical challenges and shortage of human resources, comprehensive and timely data collection required for effective surveillance, especially collection of data about sudden epidemic outbreaks, is still very difficult. In this paper, we propose the use of multi-source web data for epidemic surveillance. We use the 2009 Influenza A (HtNt) pandemic in Beijing as a case study to demonstrate the utility of our proposed approach. Experiments using data from the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDq and several search engines show encouraging results. This case study also has direct practical values in the real setting.
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U2 - 10.1109/SOLI.2010.5551614
DO - 10.1109/SOLI.2010.5551614
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77957811331
SN - 9781424471188
T3 - Proceedings of 2010 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, SOLI 2010
SP - 76
EP - 81
BT - Proceedings of 2010 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, SOLI 2010
Y2 - 15 July 2010 through 17 July 2010
ER -