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Optimization in infectious disease control and prevention : tuberculosis modeling using microsimulation / Sze-chuan Suen -- Saving lives with operations research : models to improve HIV resource allocation / Sabina S. Alistar, Margaret L. Brandeau -- Adaptive decision making during epidemics / Reza Yaesoubi, Ted Cohen -- Assessing register-based chlamydia infection screening programs : a cost-effectiveness analysis on screening start/end age and frequency / Yu Teng, Nan Kong, Wanzhu Tu -- Optimal selection of assays for detecting infectious agents in donated blood / Ebru K. Bish, Hadi El-Amine, Douglas R. Bish, Susan L. Stramer, Anthony D. Slonim -- Modeling chronic hepatitis C during rapid therapeutic advance : cost-effective screening, monitoring and treatment strategies / Shan Liu -- Modeling disease progression and risk-differentiated screening for cervical cancer prevention / Adriana Ley-Chavez, Julia L. Higle -- Using finite-horizon Markov decision processes for optimizing post-mammography diagnostic decisions / Sait Tunc, Oguzhan Alagoz, Jagpreet Chhatwal, Elizabeth S. Burside -- Partially observable Markov decision processes for prostate cancer screening, surveillance, and treatment : a budgeted sampling approximation method / Jingyu Zhang, Brian T. Denton -- Cost-effectiveness analysis of breast cancer mammography screening policies considering heterogeneity in women's adherence / Mahboubeh Madadi, Shengfan Zhang -- An agent-based model for ideal cardiovascular health / Yan Li, Nan Kong, Mark A. Lawley, Jose A. Pag�an -- Biological planning optimization for high-dose-rate brachytherapy and its application to cervical cancer treatment / Eva K. Lee, Fan Yuan, Alistair Templeton, Rui Yao, Krystyna Kiel, James CH Chu -- Fluence map optimization in intensity modulated radiation therapy treatment planning / Dionne M. Aleman -- Sliding window IMRT and VMAT optimization / David Craft, Taret Hlibi -- Modeling the cardiovascular disease prevention-treatment tradeoff / George Miller -- Treatment optimization for patients with type 2 diabetes / Jennifer Mason Lobo -- Machine learning for early detection and treatment outcome prediction / Eva K. Lee.

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