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ArticleEnvironmental health : a global access science source2018

Emerging trends in geospatial artificial intelligence (geoAI): potential applications for environmental epidemiology.

Trang VoPham, Jaime E Hart, Francine Laden, Yao-Yi Chiang

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Article in Environmental health : a global access science source, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. A review of geospatial exposure models and approaches for health data integration.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2025
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  8. Privacy-preserving decentralized learning methods for biomedical applications.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2024
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  9. Active workplace design: current gaps and future pathways.British journal of sports medicine · 2024
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  11. Geospatial Science for the Environmental Epidemiology of Cancer in the Exposome Era.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2024
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  19. Blockchain and artificial intelligence technology in e-Health.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Trang VoPhamDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. tvopham@hsph.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-4787-1201
Jaime E HartChanning Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Francine LadenDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Yao-Yi ChiangSpatial Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, 3616 Trousdale Parkway AHF B55, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA.

Funding

Training Program in Cancer EpidemiologyT32CA009001 · NCI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) · PI A. Heather Eliassen, Meir Stampfer · 1985 to 2026
$17.3M
NCI NIH HHS T32 CA009001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Geospatial artificial intelligence (geoAI) is an emerging scientific discipline that combines innovations in spatial science, artificial intelligence methods in machine learning (e.g., deep learning), data mining, and high-performance computing to extract knowledge from spatial big data. In environmental epidemiology, exposure modeling is a commonly used approach to conduct exposure assessment to determine the distribution of exposures in study populations. geoAI technologies provide important advantages for exposure modeling in environmental epidemiology, including the ability to incorporate large amounts of big spatial and temporal data in a variety of formats; computational efficiency; flexibility in algorithms and workflows to accommodate relevant characteristics of spatial (environmental) processes including spatial nonstationarity; and scalability to model other environmental exposures across different geographic areas. The objectives of this commentary are to provide an overview of key concepts surrounding the evolving and interdisciplinary field of geoAI including spatial data science, machine learning, deep learning, and data mining; recent geoAI applications in research; and potential future directions for geoAI in environmental epidemiology.

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Artificial IntelligenceEnvironmental ExposureEnvironmental HealthEnvironmental MonitoringData miningDeep learningEnvironmental epidemiologyExposure modelinggeoAIGeospatial artificial intelligenceMachine learningRemote sensingSpatial data science

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PMID29665858
PMCPMC5905121

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