|
Scott Nicholson at Strata Rx 2012: Healthcare Data Science is Crazy (Fun!)
It is clear that data are core to solving big problems
in health care, and data science is the skill set needed to
extract insights and make them actionable. Using lessons from
experience from consumer internet and a large dataset of clinical and claims data
from across the US. |
Fuzzy association rule model used to predict dengue fever outbreaks
Researchers developed a method to predict dengue
fever outbreaks utilizing Fuzzy Association Rule Mining to identify
relationships between clinical, meteorological, climatic, and
socio-political data from Peru. The best set of relationships, or rules,
is automatically chosen and forms a classifier, which is then used to
predict future dengue incidence as either HIGH (outbreak) or LOW (no
outbreak). The automated method built three different fuzzy association
rule models. The first two weekly models predicted dengue incidence
three and four weeks in advance, respectively. The third prediction
encompassed a four-week period, four to seven weeks from time of
prediction. The method is general and could be applied in any
geographical region for other environmentally influenced infections.
Source: "A data-driven epidemiological prediction
method for dengue outbreaks using local and remote sensing data," BMC
Medical Informatics and Decision Making, November 5, 2012
Source URL:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/12/124
- UPMC Fosters ‘Personalized Medicine’ with $100 Million Investment in Sophisticated Data Warehouse and Analytics
- Dovetail Health Prevents Re-Admissions in High-Risk Patients Using CareAnalyzer from DST Health Solutions
- Automating Clinical Trial Enrollment
- Medalogix Readmission Reduction Tool Recognized by HIMSS
- Thought Leader’s Corner: “How widespread today is the use of genetic risk scores in developing predictive models, and what is the potential of such applications? What are the challenges?"
- Industry News with briefs regarding the National Predictive Modeling Summit; CGI Group and River Logic; and Novarica
- Catching Up With…. Ognian K. Asparouhov PhD
- Click here to view page one of this issue
- Click here to subscribe to Medical Home News, or find out more
