Impact of case definition on early detection systems for COVID-19
About the Project
Detecting infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, early can accelerate case isolation and break chains of infection. We can train a model to do this but there is no clear definition of when a case starts, meaning the ground-truth labels (used for training and evaluation) are often inconsistent between studies. A hypothesis is that case definition, i.e., the time-point at which an individual changes labels from healthy to infected, has a significant effect on systems designed to identify individuals.
This project will use home testing kit study data to analyze and compare the effect of changing the case definition on detection through existing models (or new models, depending on project progress) and consider whether the evaluation metrics reflect real-world impact. If progress allows, the project will seek to find the optimal case-onset point (or some function of accuracy vs early detection) for an early-detection system.
Team
- Shannon Rumsey
- Edward Ho
- Nealson Setiawan
- Jen Park
- Chunting Zheng
Mentors
- Arinbjörn Kolbeinsson, Evidation
- Eric Daza, Evidation
- Megan Elcheikhali, UCSB
Presentation
About Evidation Health
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