Detecting Stimulant and Opioid Misuse and Illicit Use
To detect and analyze non-therapeutic (illicit or misuse) stimulant and opioid use from free-text clinical notes in EHRs, which is not possible using standard medical codes.
DHP Virtual Assistant
To assist HIV researchers by retrieving relevant information related to HIV and HIV research, improving productivity and efficiency in literature review.
Reviewing Global Influenza Vaccine Literature
To efficiently review a large volume of published literature and identify abstracts related to access to influenza vaccines.
Identify infrastructure supports for physical activity (e.g. sidewalks) in satellite and roadway images
To streamline and automate the surveillance of sidewalks and other infrastructure that support physical activity, reducing the labor and cost associated with manual inspection.
LaserAI
To reduce screening time and improve accuracy in all phases of systematic reviews by automating title and abstract screening, PDF retrieval, full-text review, and data extraction.
SewerScout: Automated on-site sewage facility detection from aerial imagery to identify failed systems
To automate the identification of onsite wastewater systems and detect failed systems using aerial imagery, enabling public health departments to efficiently locate and assess sep…
Malaria parasites DNA barcode geography classification
To complement epidemiologic investigations of domestic malaria cases by determining the geographic origin of malaria parasite strains, helping to understand how the strain entered…
Respiratory Virus Response (RVR) Data Analysis Concept
Summarizing subject matter expert (SME) interpretations and knowledge during a public health response is time-consuming. The AI aims to improve efficiency in knowledge disseminati…
Genetic distance computation method for comparing complex multi-locus parasite (Cyclospora) genotypes
Investigating the similarity of infections for epidemiologic investigations of cyclosporiasis outbreaks. The method enables clustering and comparison of complex genotypes, which a…
MedCoder - Coding literal text cause of death information reported on death certificates to ICD-10
Automating the coding of literal text causes of death from death certificates to ICD-10 codes, improving accuracy, efficiency, and timeliness of mortality data for public health s…
Nowcasting Injury Trends
Providing real-time estimates of injury and death trends to enhance situational awareness and expedite surveillance and research activities, especially when gold standard data are…
Semi-Automated Nonresponse Detection for Surveys (SANDS)
Manual review of open-ended survey responses is labor-intensive and cost-prohibitive at scale. SANDS automates the detection of nonresponses in survey data, reducing the burden on…
Sequential Coverage Algorithm (SCA) and partial Expectation-Maximization (EM) estimation in Record Linkage
To improve the accuracy and efficiency of record linkage in CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Data Linkage Program, particularly for large datasets, by automating…
TowerScout: Automated cooling tower detection from aerial imagery for Legionnaires' Disease outbreak investigation
Rapid identification of cooling towers that could potentially be spreading Legionella bacteria during outbreaks, enabling faster and more efficient outbreak response.
GenAIMeta: Generative AI CDC Metadata Query Application
Metadata plays a crucial role in enhancing public understanding and usage of CDC data. Usable metadata are essential not only for making data easy to find, understand, and use on…
Detecting, evaluating, and redacting PII in NAMCS HC Component
How effective are open-source PII detection models in identifying and redacting PII? The National Center for Health Statistics’ (NCHS) Division of Health Care Statistics has colle…
Machine Learning with Premier Healthcare Data to inform predictive modeling of antibiotic use
Surveillance data, including the Emerging Infections Program (EIP) and the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) can be linked to and other inpatient data to better character…
Machine Learning Techniques for Early Detection and Situational Awareness of Rabies Outbreaks
Rabies is enzootic in wildlife and modern-day surveillance techniques are too weak to fully capture the geographic extent of outbreaks nor early outbreak detection. Our ML algorit…
AI-Powered web scanner for digital surveillance of rabies-related news articles
US travelers to international destinations are often exposed to rabies, and in some cases have died upon return to the US. Accurate and early identification of rabies outbreaks ca…
Text embedding analysis tool
Reviewing large sets of documents can take hours to identify similar clusters or analysis. The tool helps non-technical staff explore large, text-based datasets by generating clus…
Agentic RAG Chatbot
The creation of accurate, detailed, and factually-grounded draft responses to public inquiries takes a large amount of time and could benefit from assistance from LLMs. Because of…
Analyzing multidrug-resistant organism response data
Free text data are collected as part of internal tracking of Antimicrobial Resistance. These data are difficult to clean, categorize, and analyze.
DHP Data Repository and Dashboard Chatbot
HP uses data to drive action for preventing and addressing HIV in the United States (U.S.). Historically, DHP’s data sources have not been easily accessible internally due to a si…
HIV Data Quality Score (DQS) Project
Currently, 60 health departments and 150 community-based organizations submit National HIV Monitoring and Evaluation (NHM&E) program data using a standard online form. However, th…