Open Access Research article

Toward unsupervised outbreak detection through visual perception of new patterns

Pierre P Lévy1,2,3* and Alain-Jacques Valleron2,3,4

1 Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Tenon, Département de Santé Publique, F-75020, Paris, France

2 INSERM, U707, Paris, France

3 Université Paris 6-Pierre et Marie Curie, UMR-S 707, F-75012, Paris, France

4 Assistance Publique -Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Unité de Santé Publique, Paris, F-75012, France

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BMC Public Health 2009, 9:179 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-9-179

Published: 10 June 2009

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ICPC-body. ICPC classification with our visual reference frame

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Movie of flu epidemics. This slide show is composed of 82 successive images of the graphic reference frame corresponding to the ~7-year period and illustrates the visual changes of the color patterns of the disease-associated ICPC-2 codes generated by the successively entered codes that paralleled flu epidemics.

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