Data Analysis and Information Retrieval for Healthcare

A special issue of Mathematics (ISSN 2227-7390). This special issue belongs to the section "Mathematics and Computer Science".

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School of Applied Computational Sciences, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN 37208, USA
Interests: developing scalable preprocessing and large-scale machine learning techniques for big data streams; data mining, natural language processing; information retrieval; application of deep learning in healthcare; distributed computing; mHealth wearable sensor data analytic

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College of Education, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
Interests: multivariate analysis; structural equation modeling; multilevel analysis; latent growth curve modeling; time series analysis

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School of Applied Computational Sciences, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN 37208, USA
Interests: data mining and machine learning; interpretable methods; smart city & urban informatics; clinical informatics; telehealth

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

An enormous amount of healthcare data is currently being generated from a multitude of sources, such as electronic health record systems, administrative and claims data, genomic and pharmaceutical data, clinical trials, telemedicine, mobile apps, wearable sensors, etc. These large-scale datasets are utilized by researchers to design artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and develop tools to improve disease diagnosis, treatment, and patient care. These AI-enabled tools not only assist doctors’ to obtain early insights into diseases, but also accelerate the diagnosis process and provide support to clinics and hospitals.

Healthcare data appear in various formats, ranging from structured to unstructured, including text, images, signals, etc., which increases challenges in relation to effective storage, access, and retrieval in the domain of healthcare. With recent advances in AI and machine learning techniques nowadays, there are a variety of methods that are developed and applied to obtain a more comprehensive data analysis and information retrieval in the healthcare domain.

This Special Issue focuses on novel methods and solutions for effective data analysis and information retrieval in healthcare.

We invite researchers from academia and industry to present their recent and unpublished studies in this Special Issue. This will help to share knowledge and foster future research in the field.

Dr. Vibhuti Gupta
Dr. Kwanghee Jung
Dr. Long Nguyen
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • health information retrieval
  • machine learning
  • big data analytics
  • natural language processing
  • deep learning

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Emotional Health and Climate-Change-Related Stressor Extraction from Social Media: A Case Study Using Hurricane Harvey
by Thanh Bui, Andrea Hannah, Sanjay Madria, Rosemary Nabaweesi, Eugene Levin, Michael Wilson and Long Nguyen
Mathematics 2023, 11(24), 4910; https://doi.org/10.3390/math11244910 - 09 Dec 2023
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Climate change has led to a variety of disasters that have caused damage to infrastructure and the economy with societal impacts to human living. Understanding people’s emotions and stressors during disaster times will enable preparation strategies for mitigating further consequences. In this paper, [...] Read more.
Climate change has led to a variety of disasters that have caused damage to infrastructure and the economy with societal impacts to human living. Understanding people’s emotions and stressors during disaster times will enable preparation strategies for mitigating further consequences. In this paper, we mine emotions and stressors encountered by people and shared on Twitter during Hurricane Harvey in 2017 as a showcase. In this work, we acquired a dataset of tweets from Twitter on Hurricane Harvey from 20 August 2017 to 30 August 2017. The dataset consists of around 400,000 tweets and is available on Kaggle. Next, a BERT-based model is employed to predict emotions associated with tweets posted by users. Then, natural language processing (NLP) techniques are utilized on negative-emotion tweets to explore the trends and prevalence of the topics discussed during the disaster event. Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling, we identified themes, enabling us to manually extract stressors termed as climate-change-related stressors. Results show that 20 climate-change-related stressors were extracted and that emotions peaked during the deadliest phase of the disaster. This indicates that tracking emotions may be a useful approach for studying environmentally determined well-being outcomes in light of understanding climate change impacts. Full article
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