Publications de Marcel Salathé

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The metabolic and circadian signatures of gestational diabetes in the postpartum period characterised using multiple wearable devices

Aims/hypothesis: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) affects 14% of all pregnancies worldwide and is associated with cardiometabolic risk. We aimed to exploit high-resolution wearable device time-series data to create a fine-grained physiological character ...

2024

Critical dynamics in population vaccinating behavior

Marcel Salathé, Sharada Prasanna Mohanty

Vaccine refusal can lead to renewed outbreaks of previously eliminated diseases and even delay global eradication. Vaccinating decisions exemplify a complex, coupled system where vaccinating behavior and disease dynamics influence one another. Such systems ...

National Academy of Sciences2017

The Food Recognition Benchmark: Using Deep Learning to Recognize Food in Images

Djilani James Kebaili, Harris Héritier, Marcel Salathé, Victor Guy Boulanger

The automatic recognition of food on images has numerous interesting applications, including nutritional tracking in medical cohorts. The problem has received significant research attention, but an ongoing public benchmark on non-biased (i.e., not scraped ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

An ecological and digital epidemiology analysis on the role of human behavior on the 2014 Chikungunya outbreak in Martinique

Marcel Salathé

Understanding the spatio-temporal dynamics of endemic infections is of critical importance for a deeper understanding of pathogen transmission, and for the design of more efficient public health strategies. However, very few studies in this domain have foc ...

Nature Research2017

Statistical physics of vaccination

Marcel Salathé

Historically, infectious diseases caused considerable damage to human societies, and they continue to do so today. To help reduce their impact, mathematical models of disease transmission have been studied to help understand disease dynamics and inform pre ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Supervised Learning Computer Vision Benchmark for Snake Species Identification From Photographs: Implications for Herpetology and Global Health

Marcel Salathé

We trained a computer vision algorithm to identify 45 species of snakes from photos and compared its performance to that of humans. Both human and algorithm performance is substantially better than randomly guessing (null probability of guessing correctly ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2021

Precision global health in the digital age

Gérard Escher, Marcel Salathé, Idris Guessous

Precision global health is an approach similar to precision medicine, which facilitates, through innovation and technology, better targeting of public health interventions on a global scale, for the purpose of maximising their effectiveness and relevance. ...

EMH Swiss Medical Publishers, Ltd.2017

Assessing the Dynamics and Control of Droplet- and Aerosol-Transmitted Influenza Using an Indoor Positioning System

Gianrocco Lazzari, Marcel Salathé

There is increasing evidence that aerosol transmission is a major contributor to the spread of influenza. Despite this, virtually all studies assessing the dynamics and control of influenza assume that it is transmitted solely through direct contact and la ...

Nature Research2019

Assessment of menstrual health status and evolution through mobile apps for fertility awareness

Laura Symul, Marcel Salathé

For most women of reproductive age, assessing menstrual health and fertility typically involves regular visits to a gynecologist or another clinician. While these evaluations provide critical information on an individual's reproductive health status, they ...

Springer2019

Digital proximity tracing on empirical contact networks for pandemic control

Marcel Salathé

Digital contact tracing is a relevant tool to control infectious disease outbreaks, including the COVID-19 epidemic. Early work evaluating digital contact tracing omitted important features and heterogeneities of real-world contact patterns influencing con ...

Nature Research2021

Food & You: A digital cohort on personalized nutrition

Djilani James Kebaili, Harris Héritier, Laura Symul, Talia Elena Salzmann, Chloé Emmanuelle Allémann, Marcel Salathé, Yannis Gregory Romain Jaquet, Sean Francis Carroll, Oleksandr Balakiriev, Germain Nicolas Hugon, Rahel Maria Salathé, Peter Ian Michael De Verteuil, Noé Georges Froidevaux, Elif Ugurlu Baud, Victor Guy Boulanger, Sandra Riccardi, Rohan Singh

Nutrition is a key contributor to health. Recently, several studies have identified associations between factors such as microbiota composition and health-related responses to dietary intake, raising the potential of personalized nutritional recommendation ...

2023

Crowdbreaks: Tracking Health Trends Using Public Social Media Data and Crowdsourcing

Martin Guillermo Mueller, Marcel Salathé

In the past decade, tracking health trends using social media data has shown great promise, due to a powerful combination of massive adoption of social media around the world, and increasingly potent hardware and software that enables us to work with these ...

2019

Associations Between Device-Measured Physical Activity and Glycemic Control and Variability Indices Under Free-Living Conditions

Harris Héritier, Chloé Emmanuelle Allémann, Marcel Salathé

Background: Disturbances of glycemic control and large glycemic variability have been associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes in the general population as well as complications in people with diabetes. Long-term health benefits of physical activi ...

MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC2022

Dynamics of social media behavior before and after SARS-CoV-2 infection

François Maximilien Nathanaël Pichard, Marcel Salathé

IntroductionOnline social media have been both a field of research and a source of data for research since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, we aimed to determine how and whether the content of tweets by Twitter users reporting SARS-Co ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

COVID-Twitter-BERT: A natural language processing model to analyse COVID-19 content on Twitter

Marcel Salathé, Martin Mathias Müller

IntroductionThis study presents COVID-Twitter-BERT (CT-BERT), a transformer-based model that is pre-trained on a large corpus of COVID-19 related Twitter messages. CT-BERT is specifically designed to be used on COVID-19 content, particularly from social me ...

2023

COVID-19 epidemic in Switzerland: on the importance of testing, contact tracing and isolation

Marcel Salathé

Switzerland is among the countries with the highest number of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) cases per capita in the world. There are likely many people with undetected SARS-CoV-2 infection because testing efforts are currently not detecting all infec ...

2020

A digital reconstruction of the 1630–1631 large plague outbreak in Venice

Frédéric Kaplan, Gianrocco Lazzari, Giovanni Colavizza, Marcel Salathé

The plague, an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, is widely considered to be responsible for the most devastating and deadly pandemics in human history. Starting with the infamous Black Death, plague outbreaks are estimated to have ...

Nature Research2020

Using Deep Learning for Image-Based Plant Disease Detection

Marcel Salathé, Sharada Prasanna Mohanty

Crop diseases are a major threat to food security, but their rapid identification remains difficult in many parts of the world due to the lack of the necessary infrastructure. The combination of increasing global smartphone penetration and recent advances ...

Frontiers Media Sa2016

Personalized glucose prediction using in situ data only

Marcel Salathé, Rohan Singh, Marouane Toumi

The worldwide rise in blood glucose levels is a major health concern, as various metabolic diseases become increasingly common. Diet, a modifiable health behaviour, is a primary target for the preventive management of glucose levels. Recent studies have sh ...

2025

Keep calm and carry on vaccinating: Is anti-vaccination sentiment contributing to declining vaccine coverage in England?

Marcel Salathé, Martin Mathias Müller

Background: In England, coverage for childhood vaccines have decreased since 2012/13 in the context of an increasingly visible anti-vaccination discourse. We determined whether anti-vaccination sentiment is the likely cause of this decline in coverage. Met ...

2020