Search Results for: privacy

January 3, 2025January 3, 2025

An automated privacy-preserving self-supervised classification of COVID-19 from lung CT scan images minimizing the requirements of large data annotation.

Publication date: Jan 02, 2025 This study presents a novel privacy-preserving self-supervised (SSL) framework for COVID-19 classification from lung CT scans, utilizing federated learning (FL) enhanced with Paillier homomorphic encryption ... Read more

December 9, 2024December 9, 2024

Developing a prototype for federated analysis to enhance privacy and enable trustworthy access to COVID-19 research data.

Coronavirus Literature

Publication date: Nov 20, 2024 The use of federated networks can reduce the risk of disclosure for sensitive datasets by removing the requirement to physically transfer data. Federated networks support ... Read more

December 7, 2024December 7, 2024

Factors driving the acceptance of COVID-19 pandemic mobile contact tracing apps: The influence of security and privacy concerns.

Coronavirus Literature

Publication date: Oct 30, 2024 The acceptance of COVID-19 mobile contact tracing apps (MCTA) is crucial to curb the spread of the virus and decrease the number of infections. However, ... Read more

November 19, 2024November 19, 2024

Privacy guarantees for personal mobility data in humanitarian response.

Coronavirus Literature

Publication date: Nov 19, 2024 Personal mobility data from mobile phones and other sensors are increasingly used to inform policymaking during pandemics, natural disasters, and other humanitarian crises. However, even ... Read more

January 14, 2025January 14, 2025

Epidemiological methods in transition: Minimizing biases in classical and digital approaches.

Coronavirus Literature

Publication date: Jan 01, 2025 Epidemiology and Public Health have increasingly relied on structured and unstructured data, collected inside and outside of typical health systems, to study, identify, and mitigate ... Read more

January 14, 2025January 14, 2025

Strengthening research preparedness for crises: lessons from Norwegian government agencies in using randomized trials and quasi-experimental methods to evaluate public policy interventions.

Coronavirus Literature

Publication date: Jan 13, 2025 During public health crises such as pandemics, governments must rapidly adopt and implement wide-reaching policies and programs (“public policy interventions”). A key takeaway from the ... Read more

January 14, 2025January 14, 2025

Diagnosis and prognosis of melanoma from dermoscopy images using machine learning and deep learning: a systematic literature review.

Melanoma Literature

Publication date: Jan 13, 2025 Melanoma is a highly aggressive skin cancer, where early and accurate diagnosis is crucial to improve patient outcomes. Dermoscopy, a non-invasive imaging technique, aids in ... Read more

January 14, 2025January 14, 2025

Autism spectrum disorder, social anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders: beyond the comorbidity.

Autism Literature

Publication date: Jan 13, 2025 Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by high rates of comorbidity with other mental disorders, including anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Beyond a mere concept ... Read more

January 13, 2025January 13, 2025

Understanding the work-related challenges of organ and tissue donation coordinators during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-method study.

Coronavirus Literature

Publication date: Jan 11, 2025 This study aimed to explore the perceptions of donation coordinators in Canada and understand how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted their work activities. A sequential mixed-method ... Read more

January 13, 2025January 13, 2025

Challenges faced by the Iranian health system in containing COVID-19: insights from a conventional content analysis.

Coronavirus Literature

Publication date: Jan 11, 2025 The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis, and health systems worldwide have faced numerous challenges in containing it. This study aimed to identify the challenges ... Read more