Title
Personalized Event-Based Surveillance and Alerting Support for the Assessment of Risk
Abstract
In a typical Event-Based Surveillance setting, a stream of web documents is continuously monitored for disease reporting. A structured representation of the disease reporting events is extracted from the raw text, and the events are then aggregated to produce signals, which are intended to represent early warnings against potential public health threats. To public health officials, these warnings represent an overwhelming list of "one-size-fits-all" information for risk assessment. To reduce this overload, two techniques are proposed. First, filtering signals according to the user's preferences (e.g., location, disease, symptoms, etc.) helps reduce the undesired noise. Second, re-ranking the filtered signals, according to an individual's feedback and annotation, allows a user-specific, prioritized ranking of the most relevant warnings. We introduce an approach that takes into account this two-step process of: 1) filtering and 2) re-ranking the results of reporting signals. For this, Collaborative Filtering and Personalization are common techniques used to support users in dealing with the large amount of information that they face.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2011
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
risk assessment,public health,early warning,collaborative filtering
Field
DocType
Volume
Public health,Data mining,Collaborative filtering,Annotation,Ranking,Computer science,Risk assessment,Filter (signal processing),Personalization
Journal
abs/1101.0
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Avaré Stewart111110.56
Ricardo Lage2254.16
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles322820.08
Peter Dolog494979.56