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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Yearb Med Inform 2022; 31(01): 273-275
DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1742526
Section 11: Public Health and Epidemiology Informatics
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Novelty in Public Health and Epidemiology Informatics

Gayo Diallo
1   Inria SISTM, Team AHeaD - INSERM Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, Univ. Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
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Georgeta Bordea
2   Team AHeaD - Inserm BPH Research Center & LaBRI UMR 5800, Univ. Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
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Summary

Objectives: To highlight novelty studies and current trends in Public Health and Epidemiology Informatics (PHEI).

Methods: Similar to last year’s edition, a PubMed search of 2021 scientific publications on PHEI has been conducted. The resulting references were reviewed by the two section editors. Then, 11 candidate best papers were selected from the initial 782 references. These papers were then peer-reviewed by selected external reviewers. They included at least two senior researchers, to allow the Editorial Committee of the 2022 IMIA Yearbook edition to make an informed decision for selecting the best papers of the PHEI section.

Results: Among the 782 references retrieved from PubMed, two were selected as the best papers. The first best paper reports a study which performed a comprehensive comparison of traditional statistical approaches (e.g., Cox Proportional Hazards models) vs. machine learning techniques in a large, real-world dataset for predicting breast cancer survival, with a focus on explainability. The second paper describes the engineering of deep learning models to establish associations between ocular features and major hepatobiliary diseases and to advance automated screening and identification of hepatobiliary diseases from ocular images.

Conclusion: Overall, from this year edition, we observed that the number of studies related to PHEI has decreased. The findings of the two studies selected as best papers on the topic suggest that a significant effort is still being made by the community to compare traditional learning methods with deep learning methods. Using multimodality datasets (images, texts) could improve approaches for tackling public health issues

Keywords

Public health - epidemiology informatics - IMIA Yearbook 2022

Section Editors for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Public Health and Epidemiology Informatics




Publication History

Article published online:
04 December 2022

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