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Dawn Bies, Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Carlos Castillo-Chavez et al, Hsinchu Chen, Hsinchun Chen, William B. Lober...
Infectious Disease Informatics and Biosurveillance
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This book on Infectious Disease Informatics (IDI) and biosurveillance is intended to provide an integrated view of the current state of the art, identify technical and policy challenges and opportunities, and promote cross-disciplinary research that takes advantage of novel methodology and what we have learned from innovative applications. This book also fills a systemic gap in the literature by emphasizing informatics driven perspectives (e.g., information system design, data standards, computational aspects of biosurveillance algorithms, and system evaluation). Finally, this book attempts to reach policy makers and practitioners through the clear and effective communication of recent research findings in the context of case studies in IDI and biosurveillance, providing "hands-on" in-depth opportunities to practitioners to increase their understanding of value, applicability, and limitations of technical solutions. This book collects the state of the art research and modern perspectives of distinguished individuals and research groups on cutting-edge IDI technical and policy research and its application in biosurveillance. The contributed chapters are grouped into three units. Unit I provides an overview of recent biosurveillance research while highlighting the relevant legal and policy structures in the context of IDI and biosurveillance ongoing activities. It also identifies IDI data sources while addressing information collection, sharing, and dissemination issues as well as ethical considerations. Unit II contains survey chapters on the types of surveillance methods used to analyze IDI data in the context of public health and bioterrorism. Specific computational techniques covered include: text mining, time series analysis, multiple data streams methods, ensembles of surveillance methods, spatial analysis and visualization, social network analysis, and agent-based simulation. Unit III examines IT and decision support for public health event responseand bio-defense. Practical lessons learned in developing public health and biosurveillance systems, technology adoption, and syndromic surveillance for large events are discussed. The goal of this book is to provide an understandable interdisciplinary IDI and biosurveillance reference either used as a standalone textbook or reference for students, researchers, and practitioners inpublic health, veterinary medicine, biostatistics, information systems, computer science, and public administration and policy.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Real-Time Public Health Biosurveillance: Systems and Policy Considerations.- Chapter 2: Designing Ethical Pratice in Biosurveillane: The Project Argus Doctrine.- Chapter 3: Using Emergency Department Data for Biosurveillance: The North Carolina Experience.- Chapter 4: Clinical Laboratory Data for Biosurveillance.- Chapter 5: Biosurveillance Based on Test Orders from Veterinary Diagnostic Labs.- Chapter 6: Markov Switching Models for Outbreak Detection.- Chapter 7: Detection of Events in Multiple Streams of Surveillance Data: Multivariate, Multi-stream and Multidimensional Approaches.- Chapter 8: Algorithm Combination for Improved Performance in Biosurveillance: Algorithms Combination for Improved Surveillance.- Chapter 9: Modeling in Space and Time: A Framework for Visualization and Collaboration.- Chapter 10: Surveillance of Infectious Diseases Using Spatial and Temporal Clustering Methods: Spatial and Temporal Clustering Methods Used in Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases.- Chapter 11: Age-Adjustment in National Biosurveillance Systems: A Survey of Issues and Analytical Tools for Age-adjustment in Biosurveillance.- Chapter 12: Modeling in Immunization and Biosurveillance.- Chapter 13: Natural Language Processing for Biosurveillance: Detection and Characterization from Textual Clinical Reports.- Chapter 14: Knowledge Mapping for Bioterrorism-related Literature.- Chapter 15: Social Networking Analysis for Contract Tracing.- Chapter 16: Multi-Agent Modeling of Biological and Chemical Threats.- Chapter 17: Integrated Health Altering and Notification: A Case Study in New York State.- Chapter 18: Design and Performance of a Public Health Preparedness Informatics Framework.- Chapter 19: System Evaluation and User Technology Adoption: A Case Study of BioPortal.- Chapter 20: Syndromic Surveillance for the G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit Meeting.
About the author
Hsinchun Chen is McClelland Professor of Management Information Systems (MIS) at the Eller College of the University of Arizona and Andersen Consulting Professor of the Year (1999). He is the author of 15 books and more than 200 articles covering knowledge management, digital library, homeland security, Web computing, and biomedical informatics in leading information technology publications. He serves on ten editorial boards, including: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, International Journal of Digital Library, and Decision Support Systems. He has served as a Scientific Advisor/Counselor of the National Library of Medicine (USA), Academia Sinica (Taiwan), and National Library of China (China). Dr. Chen founded The University of Arizona Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1990. The group is distinguished for its applied and high-impact AI research. Since 1990, Dr. Chen has received more than $20M in research funding from various government agencies and major corporations. He has been a PI of the NSF Digital Library Initiative Program and the NIH NLM s Biomedical Informatics Program. His group has developed advanced medical digital library and data and text mining techniques for gene pathway and disease informatics analysis and visualization since 1995. Dr. Chen s nanotechnology patent analysis works, funded by NSF, have been published in the Journal of Nanoparticle Research. His research findings were used in the President s Council of Advisors in Science and Technology s report on "The National Nanotechnology Initiative at Five Years: Assessment and Recommendations of the National Nanotechnology Advisory Panel." Dr. Chen s work also has been recognized by major US corporations and been awarded numerous industry awards for his contribution to IT education and research, including: ATT Foundation Award in Science and Engineering and SAP Award in Research/Applications. Dr. Chen has been heavily involved in fostering digital library, medical informatics, knowledge management, and intelligence informatics research and education in the US and internationally. He has been a PI for more than 20 NSF and NIH research grants since 1990. Dr. Chen is conference chair of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2004 and has served as the conference general chair or international program committee chair for the past six International Conferences of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL), 1998-2005. He has been instrumental in fostering the ICADL activities in Asia. Dr. Chen is the founder and also conference co-chair of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), 2003-2006. The ISI conference has become the premiere meeting for international, national, and homeland security IT research. Dr. Chen is an IEEE fellow.
Summary
This book on Infectious Disease Informatics (IDI) and biosurveillance is intended to provide an integrated view of the current state of the art, identify technical and policy challenges and opportunities, and promote cross-disciplinary research that takes advantage of novel methodology and what we have learned from innovative applications. This book also fills a systemic gap in the literature by emphasizing informatics driven perspectives (e.g., information system design, data standards, computational aspects of biosurveillance algorithms, and system evaluation). Finally, this book attempts to reach policy makers and practitioners through the clear and effective communication of recent research findings in the context of case studies in IDI and biosurveillance, providing “hands-on” in-depth opportunities to practitioners to increase their understanding of value, applicability, and limitations of technical solutions.
This book collects the state of the art research and modern perspectives of distinguished individuals and research groups on cutting-edge IDI technical and policy research and its application in biosurveillance. The contributed chapters are grouped into three units.
Unit I provides an overview of recent biosurveillance research while highlighting the relevant legal and policy structures in the context of IDI and biosurveillance ongoing activities. It also identifies IDI data sources while addressing information collection, sharing, and dissemination issues as well as ethical considerations.
Unit II contains survey chapters on the types of surveillance methods used to analyze IDI data in the context of public health and bioterrorism. Specific computational techniques covered include: text mining, time series analysis, multiple data streams methods, ensembles of surveillance methods, spatial analysis and visualization, social network analysis, and agent-based simulation.
Unit III examines IT and decision support for public health event responseand bio-defense. Practical lessons learned in developing public health and biosurveillance systems, technology adoption, and syndromic surveillance for large events are discussed.
The goal of this book is to provide an understandable interdisciplinary IDI and biosurveillance reference either used as a standalone textbook or reference for students, researchers, and practitioners in
public health, veterinary medicine, biostatistics, information systems, computer science, and public administration and policy.
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From the reviews:
“This book covers a wide range of important informatics topics related to the field of infectious diseases … . Although the primary audience for this book may be those in the field of biosurveillance, it is also appropriate for public health professionals and policymakers and will be useful for graduate students in informatics and computer science … . Finally, this book also would appeal to graduate students and faculty in more quantitative fields of public health … .” (Philip M. Polgreen, Doody’s Review Service, December, 2011)
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From the reviews:
"This book covers a wide range of important informatics topics related to the field of infectious diseases ... . Although the primary audience for this book may be those in the field of biosurveillance, it is also appropriate for public health professionals and policymakers and will be useful for graduate students in informatics and computer science ... . Finally, this book also would appeal to graduate students and faculty in more quantitative fields of public health ... ." (Philip M. Polgreen, Doody's Review Service, December, 2011)
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