The CommonGround visual paradigm for biosurveillance

Author

Livnat, Yarden ; Jurrus, Elizabeth ; Gundlapalli, Adi V. ; Gestland, Per

Author_Institution

Sci. Comput. & Imaging Inst., Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

4-7 June 2013

Firstpage

352

Lastpage

357

Abstract

Biosurveillance is a critical area in the intelligence community for real-time detection of disease outbreaks. Identifying epidemics enables analysts to detect and monitor disease outbreak that might be spread from natural causes or from possible biological warfare attacks. Containing these events and disseminating alerts requires the ability to rapidly find, classify and track harmful biological signatures. In this paper, we describe a novel visual paradigm to conduct biosurveillance using an Infectious Disease Weather Map. Our system provides a visual common ground in which users can view, explore and discover emerging concepts and correlations such as symptoms, syndromes, pathogens and geographic locations.

Keywords

data analysis; data visualisation; diseases; epidemics; geographic information systems; medical computing; surveillance; CommonGround visual paradigm; biological warfare attacks; biosurveillance; disease outbreak monitoring; epidemic identification; harmful biological signature tracking; infectious disease weather map; intelligence community; natural causes; real-time disease outbreak detection; Correlation; Data visualization; Educational institutions; Layout; Tag clouds; Visualization; biosurveillance; interactive exploration; situational awareness; visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6214-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISI.2013.6578857

Filename

6578857