System and method for detecting spatiotemporal clusters

摘要: A method and system suitable for automated surveillance disease detection particularly syndromic information represented in the transaction order records from clinical systems of hospitals, clinics, emergency rooms. Patient's findings conditions expressed as annotations may be combined with evidence recorded by physicians a classifier software application that yields daily counts proband cases possibly denoting occurrence bioterrorist-caused illness. Techniques digital signal processing statistical spatiotemporal image are allows optimization parameters hypothesis testing, prediction planning decision-making, inferencing. Once optimized, can achieve high-sensitivity high-specificity true occurrences illness such bioterrorism, while avoiding false-alarm signals.