Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)
Feb 1, 2017
INTRODUCTION: "Social big data" from technologies such as social media, wearable devices, and online searches continue to grow and can be used as tools for HIV research. Although researchers can uncover patterns and insights associated with HIV trend...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
HPV vaccination refusal is a serious public health issue. Opinions on Twitter have are influential to potential consumers on vaccination behaviours. Public opinions toward HPV vaccination were extracted from Twitter by leveraging machine learning mod...
Journal of emergency management (Weston, Mass.)
Jan 1, 2016
Natural disasters cause enormous damage to countries all over the world. To deal with these common problems, different activities are required for disaster management at each phase of the crisis. There are three groups of activities as follows: (1) m...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2016
This paper proposes a social network with an integrated children disease prediction system developed by the use of the specially designed Children General Disease Ontology (CGDO). This ontology consists of children diseases and their relationship wit...
Natural language processing employs computational techniques for the purpose of learning, understanding, and producing human language content. Early computational approaches to language research focused on automating the analysis of the linguistic st...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Patients today have ample opportunities to inform themselves about their disease and possible treatments using the Internet. While this type of patient empowerment is widely regarded as having a positive influence on the treatment, there exists the p...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Depression in adolescence is associated with significant suicidality. Therefore, it is important to detect the risk for depression and provide timely care to adolescents. This study aims to develop an ontology for collecting and analyzing social medi...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Clinical terminologies and ontologies are often used in natural language processing/understanding tasks as a method for semantically tagging text. One ontology commonly used for this task is SNOMED CT. Natural language is rich and varied: many differ...