BIOSTORM

The goals of this project are to develop fundamental knowledge about the performance of aberrancy detection algorithms used in public health surveillance and to develop methodologies and tools that will use this knowledge to automatically select and apply surveillance algorithms. We have developed a software system called BioSTORM (Bio logical Spatio-Temporal Outbreak Reasoning Module) to allow the specification and deployment of aberrancy detection algorithms in the contexts of evaluation and on-line surveillance. BioSTORM enables concurrent application and high-throughput evaluation of aberrancy detection algorithms.

Primary location: Stanford United States