Paper Info
Title
BioPortal Infectious Disease Informatics research: disease surveillance and situational awareness
Abstract
In this project summary, we briefly present the disease monitoring and situational awareness infrastructure developed in BioPortal, our NSF-funded Infectious Disease Informatics project. We focus on two areas: social network analysis for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and global Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) surveillance based on news monitoring. SARS is an example of a highly contagious disease that transmits via multiple vectors. By incorporating geographical contacts into social network analysis (SNA) and contact tracing, we are able to achieve a much higher connectivity than through contact tracing alone. FMD is a disease that wreaks havoc on farm animals and therefore on farm economy, and global FMD situational awareness is critical to protecting agronomy investments. By monitoring online news sources for FMD-related news and developing an accurate classification system, we can keep public health personnel apprised of outbreaks and potential outbreak situations. The results reported herein are based on collaborative efforts between the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab at the University of Arizona, the National Taiwan University, and the FMD Lab at University of California-Davis.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2008
DG.O
disease surveillance,fmd lab,online news source,news monitoring,fmd-related news,global fmd situational awareness,global foot-and-mouth disease,disease monitoring,contagious disease,national taiwan university,bioportal infectious disease informatics,social network analysis,infectious disease,search engines,situation awareness
Field
DocType
Citations 
Public health,Informatics,Contact tracing,Computer science,Contagious disease,Social network analysis,Knowledge management,Disease surveillance,Outbreak,Infectious disease (medical specialty)
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yulei Zhang135025.66
Yan Dang220216.06
Yi-Da Chen3101.72
Hsinchun Chen49569813.33
Mark Thurmond5468.48
Chwan-Chuen King6413.64
Daniel Zeng72539286.59
Catherine A. Larson87710.45