PADI-web: a web scraping tool for epidemiology surveillance
Epidemic intelligence integrates two components: indicator-based (e.g. official disease reports), and event-based surveillance (EBS) which looks at reports, stories, rumours, and other information about health events that could be a serious risk to public health. Because they are based on published reports which take time to produce and lack geographical precision, EBS tools may miss the first signals of the (re)-emergence of infectious diseases, as they may lack timeliness and spatial resolution.
PADI-web is an EBS system mainly dedicated to animal disease surveillence.
PADI-web for animal disease surveillance
PADI-web pipeline involves six steps ranging from online news collection to the extraction of epidemiological features:
- Data collection
- Data processing
- Data classification
- Sentence classification
- Information extraction
- User notification
PADI-web for plant disease surveillance
Due to the increasing number of new and reemerging pests resulting from intensification, globalisation and climate change, monitoring of plant health is crucial.