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A simulation program that models the spread of highly communicable diseases more than a thousand times faster than its U.S. counterparts was unveiled Nov. 16 by Taiwan?s Academia Sinica.
?This breakthrough will allow local medical experts to more effectively predict the transmission patterns of diseases such as swine flu,? Academia Sinica said.
According to Academic Sinica, the program allows for the simulation of various airport quarantine policies that can delay infection peak-dates. This will help determine the optimum time for initiating intervention policies.
The program?s research team, which includes Academia Research Fellows Hsu Tsan-sheng, Liau Churn-jung and Wang Da-wei, attributed the dramatic improvement in modeling times to fundamental revisions of computing algorithms.
Developed in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control, National Taiwan University and the University of Hong Kong, the program is the nation?s first-ever foray into the world of disease-simulation modeling.
Taiwan is now the third country behind the U.K. and U.S. to roll out a homegrown disease-simulation modeling system. (JSM)
?This breakthrough will allow local medical experts to more effectively predict the transmission patterns of diseases such as swine flu,? Academia Sinica said.
According to Academic Sinica, the program allows for the simulation of various airport quarantine policies that can delay infection peak-dates. This will help determine the optimum time for initiating intervention policies.
The program?s research team, which includes Academia Research Fellows Hsu Tsan-sheng, Liau Churn-jung and Wang Da-wei, attributed the dramatic improvement in modeling times to fundamental revisions of computing algorithms.
Developed in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control, National Taiwan University and the University of Hong Kong, the program is the nation?s first-ever foray into the world of disease-simulation modeling.
Taiwan is now the third country behind the U.K. and U.S. to roll out a homegrown disease-simulation modeling system. (JSM)
