2. BioSurveillance 2007: New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Daniel Dajun Zeng, Ivan Gotham, Ken Komatsu, Cecil Lynch, Mark Thurmond, David Madigan, Bill Lober, James Kvach, Hsinchun Chen (Eds.): Intelligence and Security Informatics: Biosurveillance, Second NSF Workshop, BioSurveillance 2007, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, May 22, 2007, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4506 Springer 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-72607-4

Long Papers

Loren Shaffer, Julie Funk, Päivi Rajala-Schultz, Garrick L. Wallstrom, Thomas Wittum, Michael Wagner, William Saville:
Early Outbreak Detection Using an Automated Data Feed of Test Orders from a Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. 1-10
Hsin-Min Lu, Chwan-Chuen King, Tsung-Shu Joseph Wu, Fuh-Yuan Shih, Jin-Yi Hsiao, Daniel Dajun Zeng, Hsinchun Chen:
Chinese Chief Complaint Classification for Syndromic Surveillance. 11-22
Yi-Da Chen, Chunju Tseng, Chwan-Chuen King, Tsung-Shu Joseph Wu, Hsinchun Chen:
Incorporating Geographical Contacts into Social Network Analysis for Contact Tracing in Epidemiology: A Study on Taiwan SARS Data. 23-36

Miriam Nuño, Marcello Pagano:
A Model for Characterizing Annual Flu Cases. 37-46
Steven A. Cohen, Elena N. Naumova:
Population Dynamics in the Elderly: The Need for Age-Adjustment in National BioSurveillance Systems. 47-58

Howard Burkom, Sean Murphy:
Data Classification for Selection of Temporal Alerting Methods for Biosurveillance. 59-70
David Bauer, Brandon W. Higgs, Mojdeh Mohtashemi:
High Performance Computing for Disease Surveillance. 71-78
Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Ruy M. Ribeiro, Gerardo Chowell, Timothy Lant, Carlos Castillo-Chavez:
Towards Real Time Epidemiology: Data Assimilation, Modeling and Anomaly Detection of Health Surveillance Data Streams. 79-90
Inbal Yahav, Galit Shmueli:
Algorithm Combination for Improved Performance in Biosurveillance Systems. 91-102
Sean Murphy, Howard Burkom:
Decoupling Temporal Aberration Detection Algorithms for Enhanced Biosurveillance. 103-113

Eric Lofgren, Nina Fefferman, Meena Doshi, Elena N. Naumova:
Assessing Seasonal Variation in Multisource Surveillance Data: Annual Harmonic Regression. 114-123
Josep Roure, Artur Dubrawski, Jeff Schneider:
A Study into Detection of Bio-Events in Multiple Streams of Surveillance Data. 124-133

Paul Jen-Hwa Hu, Daniel Dajun Zeng, Hsinchun Chen, Catherine A. Larson, Chunju Tseng:
A Web-Based System for Infectious Disease Data Integration and Sharing: Evaluating Outcome, Task Performance Efficiency, User Information Satisfaction, and Usability. 134-146
Boaz Carmeli, Tzilla Eshel, Daniel K. Ford, Ohad Greenshpan, James Kaufman, Sarah E. Knoop, Roni Ram, Sondra Renly:
Public Health Affinity Domain: A Standards-Based Surveillance System Solution. 147-158
Michelle N. Podgornik, Alicia Postema, Roseanne English, Kristin B. Uhde, Steve Bloom, Peter Hicks, Paul McMurray, John Copeland, Lynnette Brammer, William W. Thompson, Joseph S. Bresee, Jerome I. Tokars:
The Influenza Data Summary: A Prototype Application for Visualizing National Influenza Activity. 159-168
Mark Thurmond, Andrés Perez, Chunju Tseng, Hsinchun Chen, Daniel Dajun Zeng:
Global Foot-and-Mouth Disease Surveillance Using BioPortal. 169-179
Colleen R. Burgess:
Utilization of Predictive Mathematical Epidemiological Modeling in Crisis Preparedness Exercises. 180-189

David L. Buckeridge, Aman Verma, Robyn Tamblyn:
Ambulatory e-Prescribing: Evaluating a Novel Surveillance Data Source. 190-195
Sylvia Halász, Philip Brown, Colin R. Goodall, Arnold Lent, Dennis Cochrane, John R. Allegra:
Detecting the Start of the Flu Season. 196-201
Kiyoshi Kikuchi, Yasushi Ohkusa, Tamie Sugawara, Kiyosu Taniguchi, Nobuhiko Okabe:
Syndromic Surveillance for Early Detection of Nosocomial Outbreaks. 202-208
Yanna Shen, Gregory F. Cooper:
A Bayesian Biosurveillance Method That Models Unknown Outbreak Diseases. 209-215
Doracelly Hincapie, Juan Ospina:
Spatial Epidemic Patterns Recognition Using Computer Algebra. 216-221
Mugdha Khaladkar, Jason T. L. Wang:
Detecting Conserved RNA Secondary Structures in Viral Genomes: The RADAR Approach. 222-227