Harnessing information from injury narratives in the ‘big data’ era: understanding and applying machine learning for injury surveillance

Kirsten Vallmuur; Helen R Marucci-Wellman; Jennifer A Taylor; Mark Lehto; Helen L Corns; Gordon S Smith

doi:10.1136/injuryprev-2015-041813

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Harnessing information from injury narratives in the ‘big data’ era: understanding and applying machine learning for injury surveillance

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Kirsten Vallmuur Queensland University of Technology, Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety—Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Helen R Marucci-Wellman Center for Injury Epidemiology, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Jennifer A Taylor Department of Environmental & Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Mark Lehto School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Helen L Corns Center for Injury Epidemiology, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Gordon S Smith National Center for Trauma and EMS, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles

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Vallmuur K, Marucci-Wellman HR, Taylor JA, et al

Harnessing information from injury narratives in the ‘big data’ era: understanding and applying machine learning for injury surveillance

Injury Prevention 2016;22:i34-i42.

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Received August 31, 2015
Revised December 1, 2015
Accepted December 8, 2015
First published January 4, 2016.

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May 13, 2016

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