WELLINGTON: New Zealand researchers use new algorithms to speed up response times to serious biosecurity and epidemic threats such as bird flu.
University of Canterbury Associate Professor of Data Science Alex Gavryushkin is co-leading work to develop technology that could provide real-time predictions in response to health and biosecurity events. “Our algorithms can present a range of possible outbreak scenarios, rather than just the one that’s the most statistically plausible, as well as updating their predictions in real time, ” Gavryushkin said on Monday.
