Journal of healthcare informatics research
Mar 11, 2025
UNLABELLED: Effective communication is crucial in reducing health disparities. However, linguistic differences, such as African American Vernacular English (AAVE), can lead to communication gaps between patients and physicians, negatively affecting c...
Journal of healthcare informatics research
Nov 20, 2023
Social media has become a safe space for discussing sensitive topics such as mental disorders. Depression dominates mental disorders globally, and accordingly, depression detection on social media has witnessed significant research advances. This stu...
Journal of healthcare informatics research
Oct 13, 2023
Although most pregnancies result in a good outcome, complications are not uncommon and can be associated with serious implications for mothers and babies. Predictive modeling has the potential to improve outcomes through a better understanding of ris...
Journal of healthcare informatics research
Sep 20, 2023
Glioblastoma multiforme (GM) is a malignant tumor of the central nervous system considered to be highly aggressive and often carrying a terrible survival prognosis. An accurate prognosis is therefore pivotal for deciding a good treatment plan for pat...
Journal of healthcare informatics research
Jul 15, 2021
UNLABELLED: Attention recognition plays a vital role in providing learning support for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The unobtrusiveness of face-tracking techniques makes it possible to build automatic systems to detect and classify ...
Journal of healthcare informatics research
May 1, 2021
Miscarriages are the most common type of pregnancy loss, mostly occurring in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Pregnancy risk assessment aims to quantify evidence to reduce such maternal morbidities, and personalized decision support systems are the c...
Journal of healthcare informatics research
May 1, 2021
People living with dementia (PLwD) often exhibit behavioral and psychological symptoms, such as episodes of agitation and aggression. Agitated behavior in PLwD causes distress and increases the risk of injury to both patients and caregivers. In this ...
Journal of healthcare informatics research
Apr 30, 2021
There have been many efforts in the last decade in the health informatics community to develop systems that can automatically recognize and predict disclosures on social media. However, a majority of such efforts have focused on simple topic predicti...
Journal of healthcare informatics research
Apr 21, 2021
Cortisol is a glucocorticoid hormone that is critical to immune system functioning. Studies show that prolonged exposure to high levels of cortisol can lead to a range of physical health ailments including the progression of tumor growth. The ability...
Journal of healthcare informatics research
Nov 6, 2018
Postsurgical complications (PSCs) are known as a deviation from the normal postsurgical course and categorized by severity and treatment requirements. Surgical site infection (SSI) is one of major PSCs and the most common healthcare-associated infect...