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ArticleProceedings : ... IEEE International Conference on Big Data. IEEE International Conference on Big Data2018

Twitter Health Surveillance (THS) System.

Manuel Rodríguez-Martínez, Cristian C Garzón-Alfonso

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Article in Proceedings : ... IEEE International Conference on Big Data. IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Fighting Health-Related Misinformation In Social Media With Large Language Models.Proceedings of the International Symposium on Intelligent Computing and Networking 2025 : Isicn 2025. International Symposium on Intelligent Computing and Networking (2025) · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Manuel Rodríguez-MartínezComputer Science and Engineering, Department University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, manuel.rodriguez7@upr.edu.
Cristian C Garzón-AlfonsoElectrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, cristian.garzon@upr.edu.

Funding

THS: Using Twitter and Big Data Analytics to Track and Predict Health ConditionsR15LM012275 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO MAYAGUEZ · PI RODRIGUEZ, MANUEL · 2015 to 2021
$621k
NLM NIH HHS R15 LM012275
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present the Twitter Health Surveillance (THS) application framework. THS is designed as an integrated platform to help health officials collect tweets, determine if they are related with a medical condition, extract metadata out of them, and create a big data warehouse that can be used to further analyze the data. THS is built atop open source tools and provides the following value added services: Data Acquisition, Tweet Classification, and Big Data Warehousing. In order to validate THS, we have created a collection of roughly twelve thousands labelled tweets. These tweets contain one or more target medical terms, and the labels indicate if the tweet is related or not to a medical condition. We used this collection to test various models based on LSTM and GRU recurrent neural networks. Our experiments show that we can classify tweets with 96% precision, 92% recall, and 91% F1 score. These results compare favorably with recent research on this area, and show the promise of our THS system.

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big data analyticsdeep learningdisease detectionstreamingTwitter

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PMID30706061
PMCPMC6350799

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