Evaluation and Verification of the Global Rapid Identification of Threats System for Infectious Diseases in Textual Data Sources
Joint Authors
Huff, Andrew G.
Breit, Nathan
Allen, Toph
Whiting, Karissa
Kiley, Christopher
Source
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases
Issue
Vol. 2016, Issue 2016 (31 Dec. 2016), pp.1-5, 5 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2016-09-06
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
5
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The Global Rapid Identification of Threats System (GRITS) is a biosurveillance application that enables infectious disease analysts to monitor nontraditional information sources (e.g., social media, online news outlets, ProMED-mail reports, and blogs) for infectious disease threats.
GRITS analyzes these textual data sources by identifying, extracting, and succinctly visualizing epidemiologic information and suggests potentially associated infectious diseases.
This manuscript evaluates and verifies the diagnoses that GRITS performs and discusses novel aspects of the software package.
Via GRITS’ web interface, infectious disease analysts can examine dynamic visualizations of GRITS’ analyses and explore historical infectious disease emergence events.
The GRITS API can be used to continuously analyze information feeds, and the API enables GRITS technology to be easily incorporated into other biosurveillance systems.
GRITS is a flexible tool that can be modified to conduct sophisticated medical report triaging, expanded to include customized alert systems, and tailored to address other biosurveillance needs.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Huff, Andrew G.& Breit, Nathan& Allen, Toph& Whiting, Karissa& Kiley, Christopher. 2016. Evaluation and Verification of the Global Rapid Identification of Threats System for Infectious Diseases in Textual Data Sources. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases،Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1107143
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Huff, Andrew G.…[et al.]. Evaluation and Verification of the Global Rapid Identification of Threats System for Infectious Diseases in Textual Data Sources. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases No. 2016 (2016), pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1107143
American Medical Association (AMA)
Huff, Andrew G.& Breit, Nathan& Allen, Toph& Whiting, Karissa& Kiley, Christopher. Evaluation and Verification of the Global Rapid Identification of Threats System for Infectious Diseases in Textual Data Sources. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases. 2016. Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1107143
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1107143