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20182023
most citedAn Innovative Approach to Addressing Childhood Obesity: A Knowledge-Based Infrastructure for Supporting Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Decision-Making in Quebec, Canada

14 citations · 39 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

BAND: Biomedical Alert News Dataset

Zihao Fu, Meiru Zhang, Zaiqiao Meng +3

Infectious disease outbreaks continue to pose a significant threat to human health and well-being. To improve disease surveillance and understanding of disease spread, several surv…

stat.ME2023

A Bayesian Non-Stationary Heteroskedastic Time Series Model for Multivariate Critical Care Data

Zayd Omar, David A. Stephens, Alexandra M. Schmidt +1

We propose a multivariate GARCH model for non-stationary health time series by modifying the variance of the observations of the standard state space model. The proposed model prov…

stat.AP2023★ 1 cited

A three-state coupled Markov switching model for COVID-19 outbreaks across Quebec based on hospital admissions

Dirk Douwes-Schultz, Alexandra M. Schmidt, Yannan Shen +1

Recurrent COVID-19 outbreaks have placed immense strain on the hospital system in Quebec. We develop a Bayesian three-state coupled Markov switching model to analyze COVID-19 outbr…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Modeling electronic health record data using a knowledge-graph-embedded topic model

Yuesong Zou, Ahmad Pesaranghader, Aman Verma +2

The rapid growth of electronic health record (EHR) datasets opens up promising opportunities to understand human diseases in a systematic way. However, effective extraction of clin…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Supervised multi-specialist topic model with applications on large-scale electronic health record data

Ziyang Song, Xavier Sumba Toral, Yixin Xu +7

Motivation: Electronic health record (EHR) data provides a new venue to elucidate disease comorbidities and latent phenotypes for precision medicine. To fully exploit its potential…

cs.CY2020★ 2 cited

COVI-AgentSim: an Agent-based Model for Evaluating Methods of Digital Contact Tracing

Prateek Gupta, Tegan Maharaj, Martin Weiss +26

The rapid global spread of COVID-19 has led to an unprecedented demand for effective methods to mitigate the spread of the disease, and various digital contact tracing (DCT) method…