Precision Epidemiology: A Computational Analysis of the Impact of Algorithmic Prediction on the Relationship Between Population Epidemiology and Clinical Epidemiology.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Precision Medicine (PM) uses advanced Machine Learning (ML) techniques and big data to develop personalized treatments, but healthcare still relies on traditional statistical procedures not targeted on individuals. This study investigates the impact of ML on epidemiology.

Methods

A quantitative analysis of the articles in PubMed for the years 2000-2019 was conducted to investigate the use of statistical methods and ML in epidemiology. Using structural topic modelling, two groups of topics were identified and analysed over time: topics closer to the clinical side of epidemiology and topics closer to the population side.

Results

The curve of the prevalence of topics associated with population epidemiology basically corresponds to the curve of the relative sta

SUBMITTER: Esposito E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11473335 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature