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SBP
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
Identifying Health-Related Topics on Twitter - An Exploration of Tobacco-Related Tweets as a Test Topic
Public health-related topics are difficult to identify in large conversational datasets like Twitter. This study examines how to model and discover public health topics and themes ...
Kyle W. Prier, Matthew S. Smith, Christophe G. Gir...
TKDE
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Prospective Infectious Disease Outbreak Detection Using Markov Switching Models
—Accurate and timely detection of infectious disease outbreaks provides valuable information which can enable public health officials to respond to major public health threats in...
Hsin-Min Lu, Daniel Zeng, Hsinchun Chen
JBI
2007
113views Bioinformatics» more  JBI 2007»
13 years 4 months ago
Description of a method to support public health information management: Organizational network analysis
In this case study, we describe a method that has potential to provide systematic support for public health information management. Public health agencies depend on specialized in...
Jacqueline Merrill, Suzanne Bakken, Maxine Rockoff...
HICSS
2007
IEEE
90views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
Optimizing Regional Aid during Public Health Emergencies: An Autonomic Resource Allocation Approach
A large scale public health emergency such as an epidemic (occurring naturally or due to a bioterrorism attack) can result in an overwhelming number of human casualties. This can ...
Hina Arora, T. S. Raghu, Ajay S. Vinze