Allergy Risk Finder: Hypothesis Generation System for Allergy Risks via Web Service

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2015:216:1113.

Abstract

This study's aim was to build a web service that automatically collects and tests hypotheses for possible allergy risks. We crowdsourced for unknown allergy risks, and obtained odds ratios. By using the collected hypotheses, we built a web service that estimates allergy risks from a questionnaire (consisting of 10 questions that we gathered from the crowdsourcing task), and at the end, we asked the users their new hypotheses on possible allergy risks. The web service also asked the users to send their original hypotheses to contribute to find the cause of allergy. In the near future, clinical trials to validate the hypotheses found in this study are desired.

MeSH terms

  • Crowdsourcing / methods*
  • Humans
  • Hypersensitivity / diagnosis*
  • Hypersensitivity / epidemiology*
  • Incidence
  • Internet / organization & administration*
  • Japan / epidemiology
  • Population Surveillance / methods
  • Risk Assessment / methods*
  • Risk Factors
  • Surveys and Questionnaires*