Spatiotemporal Hotspots Analysis for Exploring the Evolution of Diseases: An Application to Oto-Laryngopharyngeal Diseases | Zendy

Ferdinando Di Martino | Zendy; Roberta Mele | Zendy; Umberto Barillari | Zendy; Maria Rosaria Barillari | Zendy; Irina Perfilieva | Zendy; Sabrina Senatore | Zendy

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Spatiotemporal Hotspots Analysis for Exploring the Evolution of Diseases: An Application to Oto-Laryngopharyngeal Diseases

Author(s) -

Ferdinando Di Martino,

Roberta Mele,

Umberto Barillari,

Maria Rosaria Barillari,

Irina Perfilieva,

Sabrina Senatore

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

advances in fuzzy systems

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38

H-Index - 19

eISSN - 1687-711X

pISSN - 1687-7101

DOI - 10.1155/2013/385974

Subject(s) - hotspot (geology) , georeference , geography , cartography , residence , medicine , physical geography , geology , demography , geophysics , sociology

This paper presents a spatiotemporal analysis of hotspot areas based on the Extended Fuzzy C-Means method implemented in a geographic information system. This method has been adapted for detecting spatial areas with high concentrations of events and tested to study their temporal evolution. The data consist of georeferenced patterns corresponding to the residence of patients in the district of Naples (Italy) to whom a surgical intervention to the oto-laryngopharyngeal apparatus was carried out between the years 2008 and 2012

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