BACKGROUND: The use of social media to discuss topics related to and within plastic surgery has become widespread in recent years; however, it remains unclear how to use this abundance of largely untapped data to propagate educational research in the...
Recent advances in biomedical research have generated a large volume of drug-related data. To effectively handle this flood of data, many initiatives have been taken to help researchers make good use of them. As the results of these initiatives, many...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Continuous monitoring the safe use of medication is an important task in pharmacovigilance. The first-hand experiences of medication effects come from the consumers of the pharmaceuticals. Social media have been considered as a possible alternative d...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jun 1, 2019
We appreciate the detailed review provided by Magge et al1 of our article, "Deep learning for pharmacovigilance: recurrent neural network architectures for labeling adverse drug reactions in Twitter posts." 2 In their letter, they present a subjectiv...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jun 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: User-generated content (UGC) in online environments provides opportunities to learn an individual's health status outside of clinical settings. However, the nature of UGC brings challenges in both data collecting and processing. The purpos...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Oct 1, 2018
OBJECTIVE: We executed the Social Media Mining for Health (SMM4H) 2017 shared tasks to enable the community-driven development and large-scale evaluation of automatic text processing methods for the classification and normalization of health-related ...