Published on in Vol 3 (2023)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/42721, first published .
Estimating Rare Disease Incidences With Large-scale Internet Search Data: Development and Evaluation of a Two-step Machine Learning Method

Estimating Rare Disease Incidences With Large-scale Internet Search Data: Development and Evaluation of a Two-step Machine Learning Method

Estimating Rare Disease Incidences With Large-scale Internet Search Data: Development and Evaluation of a Two-step Machine Learning Method

Jiayu Li   1 , PhD ;   Zhiyu He   1 , MSc ;   Min Zhang   1 , PhD ;   Weizhi Ma   2 , PhD ;   Ye Jin   3 , MD ;   Lei Zhang   4 , MD ;   Shuyang Zhang   5 , MD ;   Yiqun Liu   1 , PhD ;   Shaoping Ma   1 , PhD

1 Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

2 Institute for AI Industry Research, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

3 Department of Medical Research Center, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China

4 Department of Nephrology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China

5 Department of Cardiology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China

Corresponding Author:

  • Shuyang Zhang, MD
  • Department of Cardiology
  • Peking Union Medical College Hospital
  • No.1 Shuaifuyuan
  • Wangfujing, Dongcheng District
  • Beijing, 100730
  • China
  • Phone: 86 010-69151188
  • Email: shuyangzhang103@nrdrs.org