ArticleBMC ophthalmology2023
What can we learn from a Chinese social media used by glaucoma patients?
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purposeOur study aims to discuss glaucoma patients' needs and Internet habits using big data analysis and Natural Language Processing (NLP) based on deep learning (DL).
methodsIn this retrospective study, we used web crawler technology to crawl glaucoma-related topic posts from the glaucoma bar of Baidu Tieba, China. According to the contents of topic posts, we classified them into posts with seeking medical advice and without seeking medical advice (social support, expressing emotions, sharing knowledge, and others). Word Cloud and frequency statistics were used to analyze the contents and visualize the keywords of topic posts. Two DL models, Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM) and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), were trained to identify the posts seeking medical advice. The evaluation matrices included: accuracy, F1 value, and the area under the ROC curve (AUC).
resultsA total of 10,892 topic posts were included, among them, most were seeking medical advice (N = 7071, 64.91%), and seeking advice regarding symptoms or examination (N = 4913, 45.11%) dominated the majority. The following were searching for social support (N = 2362, 21.69%), expressing emotions (N = 497, 4.56%), and sharing knowledge (N = 527, 4.84%) in sequence. The word cloud analysis results showed that ocular pressure, visual field, examination, and operation were the most frequent words. The accuracy, F1 score, and AUC were 0.891, 0.891, and 0.931 for the BERT model, 0.82, 0.821, and 0.890 for the Bi-LSTM model.
conclusionSocial media can help enhance the patient-doctor relationship by providing patients' concerns and cognition about glaucoma in China. NLP can be a powerful tool to reflect patients' focus on diseases. DL models performed well in classifying Chinese medical-related texts, which could play an important role in public health monitoring.
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