Journal of Medical Internet Research,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Ноя. 12, 2024
Natural
language
processing
(NLP)
has
the
potential
to
promote
public
health.
However,
applying
these
technologies
in
African
health
systems
faces
challenges,
including
limited
digital
and
computational
resources
support
continent's
diverse
languages
needs.
This
scoping
review
maps
evidence
on
NLP
for
Africa,
addressing
following
research
questions:
(1)
What
needs
are
being
addressed
by
what
unmet
remain?
(2)
factors
influence
availability
of
across
countries
languages?
(3)
stages
deployment
have
reached,
extent
they
been
integrated
into
systems?
(4)
measurable
impact
had
outcomes,
where
such
data
available?
(5)
recommendations
proposed
enhance
quality,
cost,
accessibility
health-related
Africa?
includes
academic
studies
published
between
January
1,
2013,
October
3,
2024.
A
systematic
search
was
conducted
databases,
MEDLINE
via
PubMed,
ACL
Anthology,
Scopus,
IEEE
Xplore,
ACM
Digital
Library,
supplemented
gray
literature
searches.
Data
were
extracted
technology
functions
mapped
World
Health
Organization's
list
essential
United
Nations'
sustainable
development
goals
(SDGs).
The
analyzed
identify
trends,
gaps,
areas
future
research.
follows
PRISMA-ScR
(Preferred
Reporting
Items
Systematic
Reviews
Meta-Analyses
Extension
Scoping
Reviews)
reporting
guidelines,
its
protocol
is
publicly
available.
Of
2186
citations
screened,
54
included.
While
existing
a
subset
SDGs,
coverage
remains
uneven,
with
widely
spoken
languages,
as
Kiswahili,
Yoruba,
Igbo,
Zulu,
no
most
Africa's
>2000
languages.
Most
prototyping
phases,
only
one
fully
deployed
chatbot
vaccine
hesitancy.
Evidence
limited,
15%
(8/54)
attempting
evaluations
4%
(2/54)
demonstrating
positive
improved
participants'
mood
increased
intentions.
Recommendations
include
expanding
coverage,
targeting
local
needs,
enhancing
trust,
integrating
solutions
systems,
adopting
participatory
design
approaches.
reveals
industry-
nongovernmental
organizations-led
projects
focused
deployable
applications.
tend
few
major
specific
use
cases,
indicating
narrower
scope
than
Despite
growth
health,
gaps
remain
deployment,
linguistic
inclusivity,
outcome
evaluation.
Future
should
prioritize
cross-sectoral
needs-based
approaches
that
engage
communities,
align
incorporate
rigorous
outcomes.
RR2-doi:10.1101/2024.07.02.24309815.
Decision Analytics Journal,
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
7, С. 100243 - 100243
Опубликована: Май 4, 2023
People
have
recently
begun
communicating
their
thoughts
and
viewpoints
through
user-generated
multimedia
material
on
social
networking
websites.
This
information
can
be
images,
text,
videos,
or
audio.
With
the
help
of
knowledge
graphs,
it
is
possible
to
extract
organized
from
texts
images
aid
in
semantic
analysis.
Recent
years
seen
a
rise
frequency
occurrence
this
pattern.
Twitter
one
most
extensively
utilized
media
sites,
also
finest
locations
get
sense
how
people
feel
about
events
that
are
linked
Monkeypox
sickness.
because
tweets
shortened
often
updated,
both
which
contribute
platform's
character.
The
fundamental
objective
study
deeper
comprehension
diverse
range
reactions
response
presence
condition.
focuses
determining
what
individuals
think
monkeypox
illnesses,
presenting
hybrid
technique
based
Convolutional
Neural
Networks
(CNN)
Long
Short-Term
Memory
(LSTM).
We
considered
all
three
polarities
user's
tweet:
positive,
negative,
neutral.
Knowledge
graphs
embedded
various
healthcare
applications
provide
improved
data
representation
inference,
they
been
shown
helpful
analytics.
describe
graph
related
data,
provides
real-time
eventful
source
new
information.
recommended
model's
accuracy
was
94%
tweet
dataset.
Other
performance
metrics
such
as
accuracy,
recall,
F1-score
were
test
our
models
results
time
resource-effective
manner.
findings
then
compared
more
traditional
approaches
machine
learning.
In
addition,
ability
recognize
has
built
into
use
graphs.
research
an
increased
awareness
infection
general
population.
IEEE Access,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
12, С. 9536 - 9549
Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2024
Diabetic
ketoacidosis
(DKA)
is
a
serious
complication
that
affects
millions
of
individuals
globally
and
presents
significant
health
complications.
Hyperchloremia,
an
electrolyte
imbalance
characterized
by
high
levels
chloride
in
the
blood,
may
result
gastrointestinal
problems,
kidney
damage,
even
death,
especially
DKA
patients.
Early
detection
treatment
hyperchloremia
are
utmost
importance
management
DKA.
This
study
explores
potential
bootstrap
aggregating
ensemble
with
random
subspaces
machine
learning
approach
to
predict
occurrence
hyperchloremia,
providing
basis
for
early
intervention
improved
patient
outcomes.
We
tested
our
retrospective
MIMIC-III
database
containing
1177
patients
compared
it
previous
studies
area
under
curve
(AUC)
100%.
Our
showed
performance
outperforming
other
methods.
The
combination
this
enhance
timely
cases,
ultimately
leading
outcomes
more
effective
DKA-associated
work
aims
contribute
development
decision
support
tools
healthcare
professionals,
assisting
them
making
informed
decisions
patients,
focus
on
preventing
managing
hyperchloremia.
Healthcare Analytics,
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
3, С. 100172 - 100172
Опубликована: Апрель 11, 2023
Social
media
platforms,
such
as
Twitter,
have
been
paramount
in
the
COVID-19
context
due
to
their
ability
collect
public
concerns
about
vaccination
campaign,
which
has
underway
end
pandemic.
This
worldwide
campaign
heavily
relied
on
actual
willingness
of
individuals
get
vaccinated
independently
language
they
speak
or
country
reside.
study
analyzes
Twitter
posts
Pfizer/BioNTech,
Moderna,
AstraZeneca/Vaxzevria,
and
Johnson
&
vaccines
by
considering
most
spoken
western
languages.
Tweets
were
sampled
between
April
15
September
15,
2022,
after
injections
at
least
three
doses,
collecting
9,513,063
that
contained
vaccine-related
keywords.
To
determine
success
vaccination,
temporal
sentiment
analysis
conducted,
reporting
opinion
changes
over
time
corresponding
events
whenever
possible
concerning
each
vaccine.
Furthermore,
we
extracted
main
topics
languages
providing
potential
bias
language-specific
dictionary,
Moderna
Spanish,
grouped
them
per
country.
Once
performed
pre-processed
procedure
worked
with
8,343,490
tweets.
Our
findings
show
Pfizer
debated
vaccine
worldwide,
side
effects
pregnant
women
children
heart
diseases.
Journal of The Royal Society Interface,
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
20(206)
Опубликована: Сен. 1, 2023
Although
rejected
by
the
World
Health
Organization,
human
and
even
veterinary
formulation
of
ivermectin
has
widely
been
used
for
prevention
treatment
COVID-19.
In
this
work
we
leverage
Twitter
to
understand
reasons
drug
use
from
supporters,
their
source
information,
emotions,
gender
demographics,
location
in
Nigeria
South
Africa.
Topic
modelling
is
performed
on
a
dataset
gathered
using
keywords
‘ivermectin’
‘ivm’.
A
model
fine-tuned
RoBERTa
find
stance
tweets.
Statistical
analysis
compare
emotions.
Most
supporters
either
redistribute
conspiracy
theories
posted
influencers,
or
refer
flawed
studies
confirming
efficacy
vitro
.
Three
emotions
have
highest
intensity,
optimism,
joy
disgust.
The
number
anti-ivermectin
tweets
significant
positive
correlation
with
vaccination
rate.
All
provinces
Africa
most
are
pro-ivermectin
higher
disgust
polarity.
This
makes
effort
public
discussions
regarding
during
COVID-19
pandemic
help
policy-makers
rationale
behind
its
popularity,
inform
more
targeted
policies
discourage
self-administration
ivermectin.
Moreover,
it
lesson
future
outbreaks.
Xenophobia
is
a
pressing
issue
in
South
Africa,
with
frequent
instances
of
violence
against
immigrants.
With
the
rise
social
media,
platforms
like
Twitter
reflect
public
sentiment
on
this
matter.
This
study
examines
tweets
from
2017
to
2022
about
xenophobia
using
NLP,
analysis,
and
machine
learning
understand
feelings
predict
potential
xenophobic
incidents.
The
findings
aim
help
policymakers
devise
strategies
enhance
cohesion
promote
more
inclusive
society.
PLOS Digital Health,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
3(7), С. e0000545 - e0000545
Опубликована: Июль 30, 2024
Manually
labeling
data
for
supervised
learning
is
time
and
energy
consuming;
therefore,
lexicon-based
models
such
as
VADER
TextBlob
are
used
to
automatically
label
data.
However,
it
argued
that
automated
labels
do
not
have
the
accuracy
required
training
an
efficient
model.
Although
frequently
stance
detection,
been
properly
evaluated,
in
previous
works.
In
this
work,
assess
of
analysis,
we
first
manually
a
Twitter,
now
X,
dataset
related
M-pox
detection.
We
then
fine-tune
different
transformer-based
on
hand-labeled
dataset,
compare
their
before
after
fine-tuning,
with
labeled
Our
results
indicated
fine-tuned
surpassed
by
up
38%
72.5%,
respectively.
Topic
modeling
further
shows
fine-tuning
diminished
scope
misclassified
tweets
specific
sub-topics.
conclude
transformer
elevates
superior
level
significantly
higher
than
detection
labels.
This
study
verifies
reliable
sensitive
use-cases
health-related
purposes.
more
convenient
developing
Natural
Language
Processing
(NLP)
analyze
mass
opinions
conversations
social
media
platforms,
during
crises
pandemics
epidemics.
Frontiers in Digital Health,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
6
Опубликована: Сен. 3, 2024
Background
In
South
Africa,
between
1966
and
2014,
there
were
three
kidney
transplant
eras
defined
by
evolving
access
to
certain
immunosuppressive
therapies
as
Pre-CYA
(before
availability
of
cyclosporine),
CYA
(when
cyclosporine
became
available),
New-Gen
(availability
tacrolimus
mycophenolic
acid).
As
such,
factors
influencing
graft
failure
may
vary
across
these
eras.
Therefore,
evaluating
the
consistency
reproducibility
models
developed
study
variations
using
machine
learning
(ML)
algorithms
could
enhance
our
understanding
post-transplant
survival
dynamics
Methods
This
explored
effectiveness
nine
ML
in
predicting
10-year
We
internally
validated
data
spanning
specified
The
predictive
performance
was
assessed
area
under
curve
(AUC)
receiver
operating
characteristics
(ROC),
supported
other
evaluation
metrics.
employed
local
interpretable
model-agnostic
explanations
provide
detailed
interpretations
individual
model
predictions
used
permutation
importance
assess
global
feature
each
era.
Results
Overall,
proportion
decreased
from
41.5%
era
15.1%
Our
best-performing
demonstrated
high
accuracy.
Notably,
ensemble
models,
particularly
Extra
Trees
model,
emerged
standout
performers,
consistently
achieving
AUC
scores
0.95,
0.97
indicates
that
achieved
outcomes.
Among
features
evaluated,
recipient
age
donor
only
throughout
eras,
while
such
glomerular
filtration
rate
ethnicity
showed
specific
resulting
relatively
poor
historical
transportability
best
model.
Conclusions
emphasises
significance
analysing
post-kidney
outcomes
identifying
era-specific
mitigating
failure.
proposed
framework
can
serve
a
foundation
for
future
research
assist
physicians
patients
at
risk