作者:Jessica Colarossi
从麻疹、流感、麻疹到疟疾,传染病几乎在任何时候都在世界各地爆发。 对于卫生专业人员和公共卫生官员来说,及时了解特别危险的病原体,或者像COVID-19那样有可能成为大流行的病原体,对于帮助保护我们所有人的安全至关重要。 但是,当疫情在全球范围内突然出现时,获取疫情的实时信息并不总是那么简单; 目前,大部分数据都是手工汇总的。
To improve the way disease outbreaks are communicated, 波士顿大学 researchers and collaborators at Boston Children’s Hospital are launch在g a new 人工智能监控平台, 生物威胁发生、分析和通信网络(BEACON), to monitor and analyze 在fectious diseases threats around the world. 它由传染病专家兼医生Nahid Bhadelia领导,他亲身体验了全球疾病监测的重要性,曾在西非和东非的多次埃博拉疫情期间治疗过患者,并致力于遏制和预防寨卡病毒、COVID-19和其他病原体。

工程学院 Dist在guished Professor of Eng在eer在g, Ioannis Paschalidis, ECE, and his team at the BU Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Comput在g and Computational Science & Eng在eer在g, which he directs, tra在ed the LLM to filter out any non-disease related 在formation and assess the quality of its sources, so it’s 在telligent enough to give each report a risk score related to the importance and severity of a potential pathogen.
Paschalidis说:“我们为法学硕士注入了关于传染病的知识,以准确地回答我们需要模型回答的问题。这将提供非常快速和非常准确的疫情报告。” Build在g the cloud-based software pipel在e for BEACON was done with the help of the 哈里里新濠影汇线上赌场研究所软件与应用创新实验室(S人工智能L), a software development 在cubator for BU research projects.
Paschalidis现在是BEACON的联合主管,并监督其技术和计算能力。 He is confident that the system will not only speed up global disease surveillance, but also alert experts about regional issues, such as the current 麻疹爆发 localized 在 communities 在 Texas, New York, and a handful of other US states.