What patients can tell us: Topic analysis for social media on breast cancer

JMIR Medical Informatics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Nzali, Mike Donald Tapi ^a,b   Bringay, Sandra ^b,c   Lavergne, Christian ^a,c   Mollevi, Caroline ^d   Opitz, Thomas ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b LIRMM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PAUL VALÉRY   (France)

^d CENTRE VAL D AURELLE   (France)

^e INRA   (France)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Social media; Text mining; Unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 85083971283     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22919694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/medinform.7779     Document Type: Article

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