AIMC Topic: Pandemics

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Large-Scale Deep Learning-Enabled Infodemiological Analysis of Substance Use Patterns on Social Media: Insights From the COVID-19 Pandemic.

JMIR infodemiology
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic intensified the challenges associated with mental health and substance use (SU), with societal and economic upheavals leading to heightened stress and increased reliance on drugs as a coping mechanism. Centers for Di...

Changes in recreational drug use, reasons for those changes and their consequence during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK.

Comprehensive psychiatry
Changes in drug use in the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic and their long-term consequences are not well understood. We employed natural language processing and machine learning to analyse a large dataset of self-reported rates of and...

Low-cost algorithms for clinical notes phenotype classification to enhance epidemiological surveillance: A case study.

Journal of biomedical informatics
OBJECTIVE: Our study aims to enhance epidemic intelligence through event-based surveillance in an emerging pandemic context. We classified electronic health records (EHRs) from La Rioja, Argentina, focusing on predicting COVID-19-related categories i...

Machine learning in point-of-care testing: innovations, challenges, and opportunities.

Nature communications
The landscape of diagnostic testing is undergoing a significant transformation, driven by the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) into decentralized, rapid, and accessible sensor platforms for point-of-care testing (...

An ensemble approach improves the prediction of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea.

Journal of global health
BACKGROUND: Modelling can contribute to disease prevention and control strategies. Accurate predictions of future cases and mortality rates were essential for establishing appropriate policies during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, no single model yi...

Leveraging artificial intelligence to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the teacher-student relationship in higher education.

PloS one
The teacher-student relationship has far-reaching implications for educational outcomes at the tertiary level. Teachers contribute to students' success in various ways, including academic support, career counseling, personal mentoring, etc., that hel...

Estimating the causal impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 spread in seven EU countries via machine learning.

Scientific reports
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) were imposed all over Europe with the intent to reduce infection spread. However, reports on the effectiveness of those measures across different European countries are inconclusiv...

Transformative biomedical devices to overcome biomatrix effects.

Biosensors & bioelectronics
The emergence of high-performance biomedical devices and sensing technologies highlights the technological advancements in the field. Recently during COVID-19 pandemic, biosensors played an important role in medical diagnostics and disease monitoring...

Modifiable risk factors of vaccine hesitancy: insights from a mixed methods multiple population study combining machine learning and thematic analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic.

BMC medicine
BACKGROUND: Vaccine hesitancy, the delay in acceptance or reluctance to vaccinate, ranks among the top threats to global health. Identifying modifiable factors contributing to vaccine hesitancy is crucial for developing targeted interventions to incr...

Characterizing Public Sentiments and Drug Interactions in the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Social Media: Natural Language Processing and Network Analysis.

Journal of medical Internet research
BACKGROUND: While the COVID-19 pandemic has induced massive discussion of available medications on social media, traditional studies focused only on limited aspects, such as public opinions, and endured reporting biases, inefficiency, and long collec...