Cloud-based health records predict flu outbreaks.
problem Real-time monitoring of influenza outbreaks.
method Electronic health records, machine learning, historical epidemiology.
result Accurate regional predictions of flu outbreaks.
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Study uses Instagram data to predict flu-like illnesses.
problem Influenza surveillance challenges due to resource limitations.
method Machine learning models trained on Instagram data, including visual content.
result Best nowcasting model had an MAE of 11.33 and correlation of 0.963.
Flusion combines multiple data sources to improve flu forecasts.
problem Accurate flu predictions to improve public health actions.
method Ensemble model combining gradient boosting quantile regression and Bayesian autoregressive models.
result Flusion was the top-performing model in the CDC's influenza prediction challenge.
Algorithm predicts zoonotic virus emergence with high accuracy.
problem Precise spatio-temporal prediction of zoonotic virus emergence.
method Machine inference using protein sequence databases.
result Quantitative indicators of jump risk from genotypic changes.
A new method improves estimation of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness.
problem Estimating vaccine effectiveness under the test-negative design.
method A doubly robust estimator (TNDDR) using cross-fitting and machine learning.
result The TNDDR estimator is -consistent, asymptotically normal, and doubly robust.
GRUs predict flu at state and city levels with lower error.
problem Influenza prediction at multiple spatial resolutions.
method Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) neural network, real-time search data.
result GRU outperforms state-of-the-art methods for flu prediction.
Test to distinguish metric space distributions using pairwise distances.
problem Distinguishing between two distributions on a metric space.
method Use pairwise distances and a two-sample Kolmogorov--Smirnov test.
result Can determine if two distributions are the same using finite data.
Paper uses LSTM autoencoder for ADS-B data to detect surveillance aircraft.
problem Detecting surveillance aircraft from ADS-B flight data.
method LSTM-based sequence autoencoder for ADS-B data.
result LSTM autoencoder effectively learns features for detecting surveillance aircraft.
New method tackles anomaly detection in video surveillance using continual learning.
problem Challenges in continual learning for high-dimensional applications like video surveillance.
method Transfer learning and continual learning for online anomaly detection.
result Significantly reduces training complexity and continual learning from recent data.
Multiple Document Representations from News Alerts for Automated Bio-surveillance Event Detectioncs.IR
Improved bio-surveillance through automated document classification.
problem Tracking infectious diseases across global news alerts.
method Recurrent neural networks, TF-IDF, Naive Bayes, logistic regression.
result 97% recall and 93.3% accuracy in bio-surveillance event classification.
Classifiers and beamforming algorithms improved audio surveillance detection accuracy.
problem Detecting surveillance sound events with high accuracy and efficiency.
method Evaluated seven classifiers and two beamforming algorithms; used data augmentation and tested with varying SNR levels.
result SVM and Delay-and-Sum (DaS) combination achieved the highest accuracy (86.0%), but had high computational cost.
New algorithm rSVDdpd improves robustness and scalability for video surveillance background modeling.
problem Camera tampering and noisy videos make background separation challenging.
method Introduces rSVDdpd, a robust singular value decomposition technique for scalable video surveillance.
result Demonstrates superior performance on benchmark and real-life datasets.
Online anomaly detection in surveillance videos with false alarm rate bounds.
problem Lack of theoretical performance analysis and online decision making in anomaly detection.
method Proposes an online anomaly detection method with asymptotic bounds on false alarm rate.
result Demonstrates effectiveness on publicly available data sets, outperforming state-of-the-art algorithms.
Smart city surveillance benefits from sound event recognition.
problem Improving monitoring capabilities in smart cities.
method Exploration of several classifiers on the SESA dataset.
result SGD achieved 72.13% accuracy in sound event recognition.
New method optimizes searchers' allocation on perimeters over time.
problem Optimizing searchers' allocation on perimeters to detect intrusions.
method Combinatorial multi-armed bandit (CMAB) with upper confidence bound approach.
result Upper and lower bounds on expected performance of the method.
Systemic Risk Surveillanceecon.EM
Online surveillance detects systemic risk in financial markets.
problem Detecting and monitoring systemic risk in financial markets.
method Online monitoring procedures for multiple series, controlling for false rejections.
result Procedures allow timely detection of financial distress.
Supervised learning improves disease outbreak detection accuracy.
problem Early detection of infectious disease outbreaks to protect public health.
method Developed a supervised learning approach based on hidden Markov models for disease outbreak detection.
result Reduces false positive rate by up to 50% while maintaining sensitivity.
Proposes a method to identify key components for predicting epidemic dynamics with limited resources.
problem Predicting epidemic dynamics with limited surveillance resources.
method Developed a group sparse Bayesian learning algorithm to identify sentinel components for monitoring.
result The proposed algorithm effectively predicts epidemic dynamics using partial data from sentinel components.
Paper describes a video surveillance system for highway traffic events.
problem Detecting specific sequences of situations in highway traffic videos.
method Compares RNN and CNN architectures for analyzing video frames and sequences.
result Best architecture performs well in real conditions.
Word2vec model captures disease attributes from unstructured text.
problem Augmenting disease surveillance with unstructured data requires accurate taxonomical correlations and trace mapping.
method Developed a disease vocabulary driven word2vec model (Dis2Vec) to model diseases and their attributes.
result Dis2Vec outperforms traditional word2vec methods in capturing taxonomical attributes across different disease classes.
Deep learning models outperform traditional methods in automated chief complaint classification for syndromic surveillance.
problem Improving accuracy and speed of automated classification of emergency department records for outbreak detection.
method Implemented two LSTM and GRU models compared to MNB and SVM classifiers trained on 3.6 million de-identified records.
result RNN models outperform bag-of-words classifiers, especially for chief complaints.
Machine learning algorithms improve autism surveillance accuracy.
problem Efficiently predicting autism from evaluations to reduce human labor.
method 8 supervised learning algorithms tested on CDC ASD data.
result Random forest and NB-SVM perform similarly, with NB-SVM having more false negatives.
FAA identifies rodent disease carriers for human health.
problem Identifying rodent species that carry zoonotic diseases.
method Applied Formal Concept Analysis to rodent trait data.
result Identified concepts linking rodent traits to zoonotic disease carrier status.
Anomaly detection identifies unusual malaria transmission patterns in Ghana.
problem Identifying atypical malaria transmission patterns in Ghana's spatiotemporal surveillance data.
method Consensus-based anomaly detection framework applied to monthly malaria surveillance data.
result High-burden areas are not necessarily those with the most frequent anomalous transmission.
Zero-shot understanding of accidents from surveillance videos using vision-language models
problem Accident understanding from surveillance videos
method Three-stage pipeline with vision-language similarity, metadata-driven multi-prompt reasoning, and entropy-gated pairwise adjudicator
result Substantial improvement in harmonic-mean score over baseline
According to the definition of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), contributing banks should give fair estimates of their own borrowing costs in the interbank market. Between 2007 and 2009, several banks made inappropriate submissions of LIBOR, sometimes motivated by profit-seeking from their trading positions. …
Adaptive ensemble improves flu forecasts with minimal data.
problem Accurate flu forecasts to help public health.
method Adaptive stacking of ensembles, changing model weights weekly.
result Adaptive ensemble outperforms static ensembles in flu forecasts.
We present an approach for penalized tensor decomposition (PTD) that estimates smoothly varying latent factors in multi-way data. This generalizes existing work on sparse tensor decomposition and penalized matrix decompositions, in a manner parallel to the generalized lasso for regression and smoothing problems. Our ap…
Mobile apps and machine learning improve malaria prevention and treatment.
problem High malaria cases and deaths in low-income countries.
method Adaptive interventions using mobile health apps and machine learning.
result Increased malaria testing, adherence, and provider skills.
Deep learning model for AIS data improves vessel monitoring.
problem Improving maritime safety and efficiency with AIS data.
method Combining RNNs and latent variable modeling for multi-task learning.
result Demonstrated relevance on real AIS datasets for trajectory reconstruction, anomaly detection, and vessel type identification.
Develops an efficient online robust PCA method for big data.
problem Efficiency and robustness in processing big data with changing subspaces.
method Online moving window robust principal component analysis (OMWRPCA) with change point detection.
result Successfully tracks both slowly and abruptly changing subspaces and detects change points.
Improved outbreak detection using machine learning fusion of statistical algorithms.
problem Balancing detection of outbreaks with false alarms.
method Train a fusion classifier using p-values and additional features.
result Fusion classifier using p-values and additional features improves outbreak detection.
Method detects insider trading using trading data and dimensionality reduction.
problem Identifying insider trading in large datasets.
method Unsupervised machine learning, principal component analysis, autoencoders.
result Identifies suspicious trading behavior based on reconstruction errors.
Accurate real-time tracking of influenza outbreaks helps public health officials make timely and meaningful decisions that could save lives. We propose an influenza tracking model, ARGO (AutoRegression with GOogle search data), that uses publicly available online search data. In addition to having a rigorous statistica…
The paper classifies vehicle shapes and colors using deep neural networks.
problem Vehicle reidentification and classification challenges.
method Used deeper neural networks for classification accuracy.
result Good classification accuracy on make/model and color.
Person re-identification (re-id), an emerging problem in visual surveillance, deals with maintaining entities of individuals whilst they traverse various locations surveilled by a camera network. From a visual perspective re-id is challenging due to significant changes in visual appearance of individuals in cameras wit…
In financial markets, abnormal trading behaviors pose a serious challenge to market surveillance and risk management. What is worse, there is an increasing emergence of abnormal trading events that some experienced traders constitute a collusive clique and collaborate to manipulate some instruments, thus mislead other …
New method uses Transformers for flu forecasting.
problem Forecasting influenza-like illness trends.
method Transformer-based machine learning models with self-attention.
result Forecasting results are competitive with state-of-the-art methods.
Adaptive sequential testing optimizes epidemic control by learning optimal test strategies.
problem Optimizing test allocation in epidemics with network and temporal dependence.
method Adaptive sequential design with Online Super Learner for optimal test strategies.
result Superior performance in simulated university COVID-19 pandemic.
Two machine learning methods detect insider trading from investor activity data.
problem Detecting insider trading from trading activity data is challenging.
method Two unsupervised machine learning methods: clustering and group identification.
result Identifies potential insider trading rings around price sensitive events.
ASTPN improves video-based person re-identification by jointly attending to spatial and temporal features.
problem Video-based person re-identification in surveillance and HCI.
method Joint Spatial and Temporal Attention Pooling Network (ASTPN).
result ASTPN outperforms state-of-the-art methods on multiple datasets.
Describes state variables in sequential decision problems, linking them to Markovian and non-Markovian models.
problem Sequential decision problems, especially in active learning and POMDPs, where decisions affect what is observed and learned.
method Canonical framework and novel two-agent perspective of POMDPs, defining state variables to claim Markovian or non-Markovian models.
result Properly modeled sequential decision problems are Markovian, while real decision problems are often non-Markovian.
Although there is a rich literature on methods for allowing the variance in a univariate regression model to vary with predictors, time and other factors, relatively little has been done in the multivariate case. Our focus is on developing a class of nonparametric covariance regression models, which allow an unknown p …
Framework extracts symptoms from EHRs for rapid disease outbreak detection.
problem Extracting relevant data from unstructured medical texts.
method Conformal active learning for efficient data mining.
result Framework achieves strong performance with minimal manual labeling.
Efficiently detects anomalies in videos with reduced computation.
problem Anomaly detection in videos for robust and efficient systems.
method Powers-of-two weights and denoising for CNN simplification and robustness.
result 10% faster detection with comparable accuracy and robustness.
A latent shared-component generative model for real-time disease surveillance using Twitter datacs.SI
Model predicts disease counts using Twitter data and disease cases.
problem Real-time disease surveillance in small areas.
method Latent shared-component generative model using Markov processes and MCMC algorithm.
result Model accurately predicts disease counts from Twitter data.
A new ML framework for RF fingerprinting across various applications.
problem Extracting unique RF fingerprints for specific emitter identification.
method Generic machine learning framework for automatic RF fingerprinting.
result Framework achieves superior performance compared to traditional methods.
Bayesian model clusters, forecasts, and imputes multivariate time series data.
problem Jointly modeling and forecasting sparsely observed multivariate time series with varying dynamics.
method Chinese restaurant process prior for clustering, temporally-reweighted extension for joint modeling within clusters, MCMC for inference.
result Superior forecasting and competitive imputation accuracy compared to baselines, interpretable clusters discovered in macroeconomic data.