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Semantically-aware population health risk analyses

@article{New2018SemanticallyawarePH,
  title={Semantically-aware population health risk analyses},
  author={Alexander New and Sabbir M. Rashid and John S. Erickson and Deborah L. McGuinness and Kristin P. Bennett},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2018},
  volume={abs/1811.11190}
}
One primary task of population health analysis is the identification of risk factors that, for some subpopulation, have a significant association with some health condition. Examples include finding lifestyle factors associated with chronic diseases and finding genetic mutations associated with diseases in precision health. We develop a combined semantic and machine learning system that uses a health risk ontology and knowledge graph (KG) to dynamically discover risk factors and their… 
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