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. 2015 Aug 28;28:45–59. doi: 10.1016/j.inffus.2015.08.005

Table 3.

Basic features related to social big data applications in health care area.

Authors Ref. num. Summary Methods
Culotta [110] Track and predict outbreak detection using Twitter Classification (regression models)
Aramaki et al. [111] Classify tweets related to influenza Classification
Bodnar and Salathé [112] Assess disease outbreaks from tweets Regression methods
Fisichella et al. [113] Detect public health events Modelling trajectory distributions
GPHIN [115] Identify information about disease outbreaks and other events related to public healthcare Classification documents for relevance
BioCaster [116] Monitoring online media data related to diseases, viruses, bacteria, locations and symptoms Topic classification, named entity recognition, event recognition
HealthMap [117] Global disease alert map Mapping techniques
EpiSpider [118] Human and animal disease alert map Topic and location detection