{"id":2322,"date":"2020-06-11T08:26:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T08:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/?p=2322"},"modified":"2020-06-11T08:26:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T08:26:39","slug":"sas-launches-free-ai-driven-environment-to-mine-covid-19-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/?p=2322","title":{"rendered":"SAS launches free AI-driven environment to mine COVID-19 research"},"content":{"rendered":"

Globally, thousands of scientists are working tirelessly on COVID-19 mitigation efforts, including the search for new treatments and a vaccine. Analytics leader SAS brings a powerful resource to the fight with\u00a0COVID-19 Scientific Literature Search and Text Analysis<\/a>, a free visual text analysis environment that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to quickly search tens of thousands of research articles on COVID-19 and deliver potentially lifesaving answers to these scientists.<\/p>\n

Leading research groups have gathered and released to the public more than 50,000 full-text scientific research articles on COVID-19 and other coronaviruses through the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19). The articles include studies on treatment effectiveness, vaccine development, mitigation efforts, genetic analysis, economic impact and more. With so much scientific literature available, it\u2019s impractical \u2013 if not impossible \u2013 to analyze it all manually.<\/p>\n

\u201cEffectively mining unstructured text from scientific literature can take teams of people, many needing deep subject matter expertise, and substantial amounts of time to effectively categorize and determine relevancy,\u201d said 2000<\/p>\n

Drawing on AI,\u00a0natural language processing<\/a>, linguistic rules and sophisticated modeling techniques, SAS\u2019 COVID-19 Scientific Literature Search and Text Analysis environment enables quick and intelligent extraction of relevant text and numerical data from CORD-19. The free and publicly available environment aims to quickly and efficiently connect the global research community with the most relevant scientific literature through its self-guided, cloud-based system.<\/p>\n

\u201cSAS has put forth a solution that expedites this process and enables researchers across the globe to support their COVID-19 related efforts such as understanding the effectiveness of treatments or better understanding genetic variables in COVID mutations,\u201d said Cullen.<\/p>\n

With SAS\u2019 new visual text analysis environment, users can interactively explore relevant research on coronavirus topics such as incubation period, genetic variations, risk assessment and more. They can also visualize extracted keywords and summarized quantitative data, quickly identify co-citations and the authority of papers using network analysis visualization, and search for key terms in free text.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic has led to an explosion of medical and scientific research, far more than any one person can meaningfully consume,\u201d said Jeffrey Engel, MD, of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. \u201cThe SAS environment, using its advanced analytic and AI capabilities, provides global researchers, public policy analysts, epidemiologists, healthcare providers and academia the ability to focus on topics that are relevant, sources that are authoritative, and findings that are impactful in their efforts to stop COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n

SAS\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0Viya\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0powers the interactive environment through advanced analytics and AI methods that help researchers explore the CORD-19 dataset. Using SAS\u00a0Visual Text Analytics<\/a>\u00a0and SAS\u00a0Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning<\/a>, SAS augments the dataset with models developed by linguists and health and life sciences experts. Researchers can explore topics such as PPE effectiveness, social distancing efficacy and the transmission environment. The models also extract and visualize quantitative data, such as the incubation period and reproduction number of COVID-19.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith COVID-19 research moving at high volume and velocity it can be a monumental challenge to connect researchers with the relevant literature,\u201d said Sajung Yun, PhD, Adjunct Faculty at Johns Hopkins University and CEO of ZtoMed. \u201cSAS has leveraged some of the most innovative AI techniques to intelligently sift through the body of data and connect users with relevant research in an intuitive and expeditious fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSAS is committed to using advanced technology in innovative ways to help customers across every industry combat the pandemic,\u201d said Bryan Harris, Senior Vice President of Engineering at SAS. \u201cOur new AI-powered environment goes beyond current offerings in the market and provides an intuitive, visual way to find complex connections in research. Because we\u2019re not only relying on machine learning, but also human-in-the-loop approaches, users can view different data slices to find exactly what they need to support their own research needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

As part of its COVID-19 response, SAS has also released the\u00a0COVID-19 Epidemiological Scenario Analysis<\/a>, an interactive environment that builds on medical resource optimization models created jointly with Cleveland Clinic. The models run different virus-projection scenarios to predict the impact of a disease outbreak and quantify the effectiveness of public health mitigation strategies.<\/p>\n

Additionally, SAS\u2019 dedicated\u00a0COVID-19 Data Analytics Resources Hub<\/a>\u00a0includes free analytical models, a public dashboard to monitor the spread of the pandemic, a data-discovery environment built on SAS Viya, and access to free training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Globally, thousands of scientists are working tirelessly on COVID-19 mitigation efforts, including the search for new treatments and a vaccine. Analytics leader SAS brings a powerful resource to the fight with\u00a0COVID-19 Scientific Literature Search and Text Analysis, a free visual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,14,5],"tags":[358],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}