BACKGROUND: Internet search engine data, such as Google Trends, was shown to be correlated with the incidence of COVID-19, but only in several countries. We aim to develop a model from a small number of countries to predict the epidemic alert level i...
International journal of medical informatics
May 1, 2020
BACKGROUND: Healthcare consumers are increasingly turning to the online health Q&A communities to seek answers for their questions because current general search engines are unable to digest complex health-related questions. Q&A communities are platf...
BACKGROUND: The recent global outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is affecting many countries worldwide. Iran is one of the top 10 most affected countries. Search engines provide useful data from populations, and these data might be useful to ...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Feb 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Consumers increasingly turn to the internet in search of health-related information; and they want their questions answered with short and precise passages, rather than needing to analyze lists of relevant documents returned by search engi...
Persons who inject drugs (PWID) are at increased risk for overdose death (ODD), infections with HIV, hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV), and noninfectious health conditions. Spatiotemporal identification of PWID communities is essential fo...
International journal of computerized dentistry
Jan 1, 2020
AIM: To assess the accuracy of DigiBrain4, Inc (DB4) Dental Classifier and DB4 Smart Search Engine* in recognizing, categorizing, and classifying dental visual assets as compared with Google Search Engine, one of the largest publicly available search...
Selection hyper-heuristics (HHs) are randomised search methodologies which choose and execute heuristics during the optimisation process from a set of low-level heuristics. A machine learning mechanism is generally used to decide which low-level heur...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
We report on the pilot evaluation of an experimental query-based search functionality that enables phrase-level query rewriting in an unsupervised way. It is intended for supporting search in clinical text. Qualitative evaluation is done by three cli...
MOTIVATION: Searching for precise terms and terminological definitions in the biomedical data space is problematic, as researchers find overlapping, closely related and even equivalent concepts in a single or multiple ontologies. Search engines that ...