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06- Advanced Engineering Technology and Application
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Volumes > Vol. 4 > No. 2

 
   

Detection of Diseases using Social Networks and Public Domain Knowledge

PP: 35-40
Author(s)
Ramesh Kini, Aigerim Zinel, Sabira Arisheva,
Abstract
This paper describes how information, taken from social media and public domain knowledge, such as Twitter, can be useful in healthcare and public health management – it describes our proposed technique of: i) collecting tweets with the information about the symptoms users suffer from; ii) filtering them; and iii) applying Dempster-Shafer theory, which deals with uncertainty, for associating the most probable disease with the given symptoms. Additionally, location-related information taken from the tweets or user profiles, using Twitter API, helps health care analysts and planners to identify the regions where the disease could potentially erupt as an epidemic. When this information is superimposed on a geographical map at the local, provincial, national, or global level, to create a heat-map, the resulting GIS tool can help public health specialists, we believe, to arrive at better pre-emptive strategies to tackle such epidemics before they become pandemics, e.g., carry out a selective vaccination program, or a cull of the birds or animals that are the source or vectors of the zoonotic disease, and so on.

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