A real-time disease surveillance architecture using social networks

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 180, Issue , 2012, Pages 823-827

  Sofean, Mustafa ^a   Smith, Matthew ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disease detection; Information retrieval; Real time search; Twitter

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DISEASE DETECTION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; REAL TIME; REAL-TIME ARCHITECTURE; REAL-TIME SEARCHES; STATUS UPDATES; SURVEILLANCE ARCHITECTURE; TWITTER;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DATA MINING; E-MAIL; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATA MINING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; HUMANS; INTERNET; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84872525494     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-101-4-823     Document Type: Conference Paper

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