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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024

Identifying outbreaks in sewer networks: An adaptive sampling scheme under network's uncertainty.

José Baboun, Isabelle S Beaudry, Luis M Castro, Felipe Gutierrez, Alejandro Jara, Benjamin Rubio, José Verschae

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Identifying outbreaks in sewer networks: An adaptive sampling scheme under network's uncertainty.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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7 authors.

José Baboun *Facultad de Matemáticas y Facultad de Ingeniería, Institute for Mathematical and Computational Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 7820436, Chile.ORCID 0009-0005-7269-1087
Isabelle S Beaudry *Mount Holyoke College, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, South Hadley, MA 01075.
Luis M Castro *Department of Statistics, and MiDaS - Center for the Discovery of Structures in Complex Data, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 7820436, Chile.ORCID 0000-0001-7249-5207
Felipe Gutierrez *Department of Computer Sciences, and MiDaS - Center for the Discovery of Structures in Complex Data, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 7820436, Chile.ORCID 0009-0000-5718-6967
Alejandro Jara *Department of Statistics, and MiDaS - Center for the Discovery of Structures in Complex Data, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 7820436, Chile.ORCID 0000-0002-2282-353X
Benjamin Rubio *Facultad de Matemáticas y Facultad de Ingeniería, Institute for Mathematical and Computational Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 7820436, Chile.
José Verschae *Facultad de Matemáticas y Facultad de Ingeniería, Institute for Mathematical and Computational Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 7820436, Chile.ORCID 0000-0002-2049-6467

Funding

ANID | Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico (FONDECYT) 1220799ANID | Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico (FONDECYT) 1220907ANID | Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico (FONDECYT) 1221460ANID Millennium Science Initiative Program NCN17_059
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Motivated by the implementation of a SARS-Cov-2 sewer surveillance system in Chile during the COVID-19 pandemic, we propose a set of mathematical and algorithmic tools that aim to identify the location of an outbreak under uncertainty in the network structure. Given an upper bound on the number of samples we can take on any given day, our framework allows us to detect an unknown infected node by adaptively sampling different network nodes on different days. Crucially, despite the uncertainty of the network, the method allows univocal detection of the infected node, albeit at an extra cost in time. This framework relies on a specific and well-chosen strategy that defines new nodes to test sequentially, with a heuristic that balances the granularity of the information obtained from the samples. We extensively tested our model in real and synthetic networks, showing that the uncertainty of the underlying graph only incurs a limited increase in the number of iterations, indicating that the methodology is applicable in practice.

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COVID-19PandemicsDisease OutbreaksHumansSARS-CoV-2Uncertaintypublic health surveillance systemsrobust algorithmssearch in uncertain treeswastewater-based epidemiology

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PMID38551839
PMCPMC10998606

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