A sco** review of the use of Twitter for public health research

O Edo-Osagie, B De La Iglesia, I Lake… - Computers in biology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Public health practitioners and researchers have used traditional medical databases to
study and understand public health for a long time. Recently, social media data, particularly …

Machine learning for data-centric epidemic forecasting

A Rodríguez, H Kamarthi, P Agarwal, J Ho… - Nature Machine …, 2024 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic emphasized the importance of epidemic forecasting for decision
makers in multiple domains, ranging from public health to the economy. Forecasting …

Combining search, social media, and traditional data sources to improve influenza surveillance

M Santillana, AT Nguyen, M Dredze… - PLoS computational …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
We present a machine learning-based methodology capable of providing real-time
(“nowcast”) and forecast estimates of influenza activity in the US by leveraging data from …

A review of influenza detection and prediction through social networking sites

A Alessa, M Faezipour - Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, 2018 - Springer
Early prediction of seasonal epidemics such as influenza may reduce their impact in daily
lives. Nowadays, the web can be used for surveillance of diseases. Search engines and …

[HTML][HTML] The application of internet-based sources for public health surveillance (infoveillance): systematic review

JM Barros, J Duggan… - Journal of medical internet …, 2020 - jmir.org
Background Public health surveillance is based on the continuous and systematic collection,
analysis, and interpretation of data. This informs the development of early warning systems …

Humanitarian health computing using artificial intelligence and social media: A narrative literature review

L Fernandez-Luque, M Imran - International journal of medical informatics, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Introduction According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over 130 million
people are in constant need of humanitarian assistance due to natural disasters, disease …

Machine-learned epidemiology: real-time detection of foodborne illness at scale

A Sadilek, S Caty, L DiPrete, R Mansour… - NPJ digital …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Machine learning has become an increasingly powerful tool for solving complex
problems, and its application in public health has been underutilized. The objective of this …

Investigation of the misinformation about covid-19 on youtube using topic modeling, sentiment analysis, and language analysis

N Thakur, S Cui, V Knieling, K Khanna, M Shao - Computation, 2024 - mdpi.com
The work presented in this paper makes multiple scientific contributions with a specific focus
on the analysis of misinformation about COVID-19 on YouTube. First, the results of topic …

Exploring trends of nonmedical use of prescription drugs and polydrug abuse in the Twittersphere using unsupervised machine learning

J Kalyanam, T Katsuki, GRG Lanckriet, TK Mackey - Addictive behaviors, 2017 - Elsevier
Introduction Nonmedical use of prescription medications/drugs (NMUPD) is a serious public
health threat, particularly in relation to the prescription opioid analgesics abuse epidemic …

Data-centric epidemic forecasting: A survey

A Rodríguez, H Kamarthi, P Agarwal, J Ho… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought forth the importance of epidemic forecasting for
decision makers in multiple domains, ranging from public health to the economy as a whole …