Integrating Heterogeneous Healthcare Datasets and Visual Analytics for Disease Bio-surveillance and Dynamics

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2013

OSTI ID:1107834

Ramanathan, Arvind ^[1]; Pullum, Laura L ^[1]; Steed, Chad A ^[1]; Quinn, Shannon ^[2]; Chennubhotla, Chakra ^[2]; Parker, Tara L ^[1]

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1. ORNL
2. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh PA

n this paper, we present an overview of the big data chal- lenges in disease bio-surveillance and then discuss the use of visual analytics for integrating data and turning it into knowl- edge. We will explore two integration scenarios: (1) combining text and multimedia sources to improve situational awareness and (2) enhancing disease spread model data with real-time bio-surveillance data. Together, the proposed integration methodologies can improve awareness about when, where and how emerging diseases can affect wide geographic regions.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1107834
• Resource Relation: Conference: The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Interactive Visual Text Analytics, Atlanta, GA, USA, 20131013, 20131013
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English