Using topic modelling for unsupervised annotation of electronic health records to identify an outbreak of disease in UK dogs

A key goal of disease surveillance is to identify outbreaks of known or novel diseases in a timely manner. Such an outbreak occurred in the UK associated with acute vomiting in dogs between December 2019 and March 2020. We tracked this outbreak using the clinical free text component of anonymised el...

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Main Authors: Peter-John Mäntylä Noble, Charlotte Appleton, Alan David Radford, Goran Nenadic
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8659617/?tool=EBI