Lee Miran, Kim Jong Wook, Jang Beakcheol
Department of Computer ScienceSangmyung UniversitySeoul03016South Korea.
IEEE Access. 2018 Aug 24;6:47206-47216. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2867030. eCollection 2018.
Humans are susceptible to various infectious diseases. However, humanity still has limited responses to emergent and recurrent infectious diseases. Recent developments in medical technology have led to various vaccines being developed, but these vaccines typically require a considerable amount of time to counter infectious diseases. Therefore, one of the best methods to prevent infectious diseases is to continuously update our knowledge with useful information from infectious disease information systems and taking active steps to safeguard ourselves against infectious diseases. Some existing infectious disease information systems simply present infectious disease information in the form of text or transmit it via e-mail. Other systems provide data in the form of files or maps. Most existing systems display text-centric information regarding infectious disease outbreaks. Therefore, understanding infectious disease outbreak information at a glance is difficult for users. In this paper, we propose the infectious disease outbreak statistics visualization system, called to DOVE, which collects infectious disease outbreak statistics from the Korea Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and provides statistical charts with district, time, infectious disease, gender, and age data. Users can easily identify infectious disease outbreak statistics at a glance by simply entering the district, time, and name of an infectious disease into our system. Additionally, each statistical chart allows users to recognize the characteristics of an infectious disease and predict outbreaks by investigating the outbreak trends of that disease. We believe that our system provides effective information to help prevent infectious disease outbreaks. Our system is currently available on the web at http://www.epidemic.co.kr/statistics.
人类易受各种传染病的影响。然而，人类对新发和复发性传染病的应对能力仍然有限。医学技术的最新发展导致了各种疫苗的研发，但这些疫苗通常需要相当长的时间来对抗传染病。因此，预防传染病的最佳方法之一是通过传染病信息系统获取有用信息，不断更新我们的知识，并积极采取措施保护自己免受传染病侵害。一些现有的传染病信息系统只是以文本形式呈现传染病信息，或通过电子邮件进行传输。其他系统则以文件或地图的形式提供数据。大多数现有系统显示的是以文本为中心的传染病爆发信息。因此，用户很难一眼就了解传染病爆发信息。在本文中，我们提出了一种名为DOVE的传染病爆发统计可视化系统，该系统从韩国疾病控制与预防中心收集传染病爆发统计数据，并提供包含地区、时间、传染病、性别和年龄数据的统计图表。用户只需在我们的系统中输入地区、时间和传染病名称，就能轻松一眼识别传染病爆发统计数据。此外，每个统计图表都能让用户通过调查该疾病的爆发趋势来认识传染病的特征并预测爆发情况。我们相信我们的系统能提供有效的信息来帮助预防传染病爆发。我们的系统目前可在网页http://www.epidemic.co.kr/statistics上获取。
