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Chronic diseases and cancer account for over 75 percent of healthcare costs in the US. Increased prevention services and improved primary care are thought to decrease costs. Current models for detecting changes in the health of populations…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-07-15 Jacob Kuriyan , Nathaniel Cobb

Air pollution poses a significant threat to public health and well-being, particularly in urban areas. This study introduces a series of machine-learning models that integrate data from the Sentinel-5P satellite, meteorological conditions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Giacomo Blanco , Luca Barco , Lorenzo Innocenti , Claudio Rossi

Cancer is a term that denotes a group of diseases caused by abnormal growth of cells that can spread in different parts of the body. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cancer is the second major cause of death after…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Fadi Alharbi , Aleksandar Vakanski

In the face of growing needs for water and energy, a fundamental understanding of the environmental impacts of human activities becomes critical for managing water and energy resources, remedying water pollution, and making regulatory…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-30 Guanjie Zheng , Mengqi Liu , Tao Wen , Hongjian Wang , Huaxiu Yao , Susan L. Brantley , Zhenhui Li

Wildfire is one of the biggest disasters that frequently occurs on the west coast of the United States. Many efforts have been made to understand the causes of the increases in wildfire intensity and frequency in recent years. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Tanqiu Jiang , Sidhant K. Bendre , Hanjia Lyu , Jiebo Luo

One of the most important characterizations of social health is existence the availability of safe drinking water. Since one of the sources of water contamination is nuclear contamination from radon gas, so in this research radon 222…

Medical Physics · Physics 2011-06-21 Ghasem. Forozani , Ghasem. Soori

Building fires pose a persistent threat to life, property, and infrastructure, emphasizing the need for advanced risk mitigation strategies. This study presents a data-driven framework analyzing U.S. fire risks by integrating over one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Chenzhi Ma , Hongru Du , Shengzhi Luan , Ensheng Dong , Lauren M. Gardner , Thomas Gernay

This study investigates the interplay among social demographics, built environment characteristics, and environmental hazard exposure features in determining community level cancer prevalence. Utilizing data from five Metropolitan…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Chenyue Liu , Ali Mostafavi

Studies have shown that exposure to air pollution, even at low levels, significantly increases mortality. As regulatory actions are becoming prohibitively expensive, robust evidence to guide the development of targeted interventions to…

Applications · Statistics 2018-02-20 Kwonsang Lee , Dylan S. Small , Francesca Dominici

This paper presents a new analysis of the observations of radon decay in an enclosed environment by the Geological Survey of Israel (GSI) between 2007 and 2012 [4]; for a more complete list of experiments performed by GSI on radon see also…

We intend to identify relationships between cancer cases and pollutant emissions and attempt to understand whether cancer in children is typically located together with some specific chemical combinations or is independent. Co-location…

With fires becoming increasingly frequent and severe across the globe in recent years, understanding climate change's role in fire behavior is critical for quantifying current and future fire risk. However, global climate models typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Tristan Ballard , Gopal Erinjippurath

Nowcasting and forecasting of the radiation environment in the Earth's lower atmosphere are critical for the safety of aircraft and spacecraft crews and passengers. Currently, this problem is addressed by employing statistical and…

In the case of radon exposure, the spatial distribution of deposited radioactive particles is highly inhomogeneous in the central airways. The objective of this research is to investigate the consequences of this heterogeneity regarding…

Medical Physics · Physics 2014-04-23 Balázs G. Madas , Imre Balásházy , Árpád Farkas , István Szőke

Real-time air pollution monitoring is a valuable tool for public health and environmental surveillance. In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in air pollution forecasting and monitoring research using artificial neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Chen Lin , Safoora Yousefi , Elvis Kahoro , Payam Karisani , Donghai Liang , Jeremy Sarnat , Eugene Agichtein

The biggest Breast cancer is increasingly a major factor in female fatalities, overtaking heart disease. While genetic factors are important in the growth of breast cancer, new research indicates that environmental factors also play a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Muhammad Shoaib Farooq , Mehreen Ilyas

Breast cancer screening plays a pivotal role in early detection and subsequent effective management of the disease, impacting patient outcomes and survival rates. This study aims to assess breast cancer screening rates nationwide in the…

This paper overviews two interdependent issues important for mining remote sensing data (e.g. images) obtained from atmospheric monitoring missions. The first issue relates the building new public datasets and benchmarks, which are hot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Chaabane Djeraba , Jérôme Riedi

Evaluating human exposure to environmental hazards is crucial for identifying susceptible communities and devising targeted health policies. Standard environmental hazard exposure assessment methods have been primarily based on place of…

Applications · Statistics 2023-06-23 Zhewei Liu , Chenyue Liu , Ali Mostafavi

The next generation low-background detectors operating underground aim for unprecedented low levels of radioactive backgrounds. Although the radioactive decays of airborne radon (particularly Rn-222) and its subsequent progeny present in an…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-08-10 V. E. Guiseppe , S. R. Elliott , A. Hime , K. Rielage , S. Westerdale