{"id":13,"date":"2026-05-09T04:56:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barpheai.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2026-05-09T04:56:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:56:38","slug":"predicting-monkey-pox-in-patients-using-synthetic-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barpheai.com\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Predicting Monkey Pox in Patients using Synthetic Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Rapid Response to Viral Outbreaks<\/h2>\n<p>During the 2022 Monkeypox outbreak, rapid diagnostic tools were urgently needed. In a Kaggle hackathon, participants were tasked with predicting the presence of the disease using a synthetic dataset modeled after real clinical studies.<\/p>\n<h2>Model Development<\/h2>\n<p>I evaluated multiple classification algorithms to identify complex symptom patterns. The Histogram Gradient Boosting Classifier provided the best performance, handling the nuances of the clinical data efficiently.<\/p>\n<h2>Healthcare AI<\/h2>\n<p>This project underscores the importance of AI in epidemiology and diagnostics, showcasing how machine learning can assist medical professionals in identifying emerging infectious diseases based on clinical features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapid Response to Viral Outbreaks During the 2022 Monkeypox outbreak, rapid diagnostic tools were urgently needed. In a Kaggle hackathon, participants were tasked with predicting the presence of the disease using a synthetic dataset modeled after real clinical studies. Model Development I evaluated multiple classification algorithms to identify complex symptom patterns. The Histogram Gradient Boosting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barpheai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barpheai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barpheai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barpheai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barpheai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barpheai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barpheai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barpheai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barpheai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}