Patent ID: 7249006

Claim:
A method for bio-surveillance detection and alerting, comprising the steps of: performing a center surround algorithm to create residual data related to population health, comprising computing background noise by averaging background data sets related to population health from different regions neighboring a center region, and subtracting said background noise from relevant data sets related to population health from the center region to create said residual data; modeling the effects of a hypothetical anomalous health-impacting event on said relevant data sets to create replica data of different types that simulates the effects of the anomalous health-impacting event on the relevant data sets; matching said residual data with said replica data using a detector to detect a real anomalous health-impacting event similar to said hypothetical health-impacting anomalous event; and triggering an alert if a real anomalous health-impacting event similar to said hypothetical anomalous health-impacting event is detected.