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This shows the framework and actions involved in early event detection of health events on the African continent developed by the CDC. Mercy et al

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Research Articles

Geographical validation of the Smart Triage Model by age group

Cherri Zhang, Matthew O. Wiens, Dustin Dunsmuir, Yashodani Pillay, Charly Huxford, David Kimutai, Emmanuel Tenywa, Mary Ouma, Joyce Kigo, Stephen Kamau, Mary Chege, Nathan Kenya-Mugisha, Savio Mwaka, Guy A. Dumont, Niranjan Kissoon, Samuel Akech, J Mark Ansermino, on behalf of the Pediatric Sepsis CoLab

PLOS Digital Health: published July 1, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000311

Predicting sexually transmitted infections among men who have sex with men in Zimbabwe using deep learning and ensemble machine learning models

Owen Mugurungi, Elliot Mbunge, Rutendo Birri-Makota, Innocent Chingombe, Munyaradzi Mapingure, Brian Moyo, Amon Mpofu, John Batani, Benhildah Muchemwa, Chesterfield Samba, Delight Murigo, Musa Sibindi, Enos Moyo, Tafadzwa Dzinamarira, Godfrey Musuka

PLOS Digital Health: published July 3, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000541

Establishing an early warning event management system at Africa CDC

Kyeng Mercy, Stephanie J. Salyer, Comfort Mankga, Calle Hedberg, Phumzile Zondo, Yenew Kebede

PLOS Digital Health: published July 8, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000546

Patient self-reported pain and nausea via smartphone following day care surgery, first year results: An observational cohort study

Bram Thiel, Jamey Blaauboer, Chiem Seesing, Jamshid Radmanesh, Seppe Koopman, Cor Kalkman, Marc Godfried

PLOS Digital Health: published July 10, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000342

BRSET: A Brazilian Multilabel Ophthalmological Dataset of Retina Fundus Photos

Luis Filipe Nakayama, David Restrepo, João Matos, Lucas Zago Ribeiro, Fernando Korn Malerbi, Leo Anthony Celi, Caio Saito Regatieri

PLOS Digital Health: published July 11, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000454

Variable importance analysis with interpretable machine learning for fair risk prediction

Yilin Ning, Siqi Li, Yih Yng Ng, Michael Yih Chong Chia, Han Nee Gan, Ling Tiah, Desmond Renhao Mao, Wei Ming Ng, Benjamin Sieu-Hon Leong, Nausheen Doctor, Marcus Eng Hock Ong, Nan Liu

PLOS Digital Health: published July 12, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000542

The First Generative AI Prompt-A-Thon in Healthcare: A Novel Approach to Workforce Engagement with a Private Instance of ChatGPT

William R. Small, Kiran Malhotra, Vincent J. Major, Batia Wiesenfeld, Marisa Lewis, Himanshu Grover, Huming Tang, Arnab Banerjee, Michael J. Jabbour, Yindalon Aphinyanaphongs, Paul Testa, Jonathan S. Austrian

PLOS Digital Health: published July 23, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000394

Diversity and inclusion: A hidden additional benefit of Open Data

Marie-Laure Charpignon, Leo Anthony Celi, Marisa Cobanaj, Rene Eber, Amelia Fiske, Jack Gallifant, Chenyu Li, Gurucharan Lingamallu, Anton Petushkov, Robin Pierce

PLOS Digital Health: published July 23, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000486

Evaluating and mitigating unfairness in multimodal remote mental health assessments

Zifan Jiang, Salman Seyedi, Emily Griner, Ahmed Abbasi, Ali Bahrami Rad, Hyeokhyen Kwon, Robert O. Cotes, Gari D. Clifford

PLOS Digital Health: published July 24, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000413

Machine-learning-based prediction of disability progression in multiple sclerosis: An observational, international, multi-center study

Edward De Brouwer, Thijs Becker, Lorin Werthen-Brabants, Pieter Dewulf, Dimitrios Iliadis, Cathérine Dekeyser, Guy Laureys, Bart Van Wijmeersch, Veronica Popescu, Tom Dhaene, Dirk Deschrijver, Willem Waegeman, Bernard De Baets, Michiel Stock, Dana Horakova, Francesco Patti, Guillermo Izquierdo, Sara Eichau, Marc Girard, Alexandre Prat, Alessandra Lugaresi, Pierre Grammond, Tomas Kalincik, Raed Alroughani, Francois Grand’Maison, Olga Skibina, Murat Terzi, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Oliver Gerlach, Samia J. Khoury, Elisabetta Cartechini, Vincent Van Pesch, Maria José Sà, Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, Yolanda Blanco, Radek Ampapa, Daniele Spitaleri, Claudio Solaro, Davide Maimone, Aysun Soysal, Gerardo Iuliano, Riadh Gouider, Tamara Castillo-Triviño, José Luis Sánchez-Menoyo, Guy Laureys, Anneke van der Walt, Jiwon Oh, Eduardo Aguera-Morales, Ayse Altintas, Abdullah Al-Asmi, Koen de Gans, Yara Fragoso, Tunde Csepany, Suzanne Hodgkinson, Norma Deri, Talal Al-Harbi, Bruce Taylor, Orla Gray, Patrice Lalive, Csilla Rozsa, Chris McGuigan, Allan Kermode, Angel Pérez Sempere, Simu Mihaela, Magdolna Simo, Todd Hardy, Danny Decoo, Stella Hughes, Nikolaos Grigoriadis, Attila Sas, Norbert Vella, Yves Moreau, Liesbet Peeters

PLOS Digital Health: published July 25, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000533

Evaluating automatic annotation of lexicon-based models for stance detection of M-pox tweets from May 1st to Sep 5th, 2022

Nicholas Perikli, Srimoy Bhattacharya, Blessing Ogbuokiri, Zahra Movahedi Nia, Benjamin Lieberman, Nidhi Tripathi, Salah-Eddine Dahbi, Finn Stevenson, Nicola Bragazzi, Jude Kong, Bruce Mellado

PLOS Digital Health: published July 30, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000545

Opinion

Key considerations in the adoption of Artificial Intelligence in public health

Itai Bavli, Sandro Galea

PLOS Digital Health: published July 1, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000540

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