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most citedPublic sentiment analysis and topic modeling regarding COVID-19 vaccines on the Reddit social media platform: A call to action for strengthening vaccine confidence

220 citations · 486 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CY2025★ 11 cited

Digital Health Innovations for Screening and Mitigating Mental Health Impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences: Narrative Review

Brianna M White, Rameshwari Prasad, Nariman Ammar +2

This study presents a narrative review of the use of digital health technologies (DHTs) and artificial intelligence to screen and mitigate risks and mental health consequences asso…

cs.AI2022★ 14 cited

An Urban Population Health Observatory for Disease Causal Pathway Analysis and Decision Support: Underlying Explainable Artificial Intelligence Model

Whitney S Brakefield, Nariman Ammar, Arash Shaban-Nejad

This study sought to (1) expand our existing Urban Population Health Observatory (UPHO) system by incorporating a semantics layer; (2) cohesively employ machine learning and semant…

cs.IR2021★ 220 cited

Public sentiment analysis and topic modeling regarding COVID-19 vaccines on the Reddit social media platform: A call to action for strengthening vaccine confidence

Chad A Melton, Olufunto A Olusanya, Nariman Ammar +1

The COVID-19 pandemic fueled one of the most rapid vaccine developments in history. However, misinformation spread through online social media often leads to negative vaccine senti…

cs.CY2021★ 34 cited

An Urban Population Health Observatory System to Support COVID-19 Pandemic Preparedness, Response, and Management: Design and Development Study

Whitney S. Brakefield, Nariman Ammar, Olufunto A. Olusanya +1

Background: COVID-19 is impacting people worldwide and is currently a leading cause of death in many countries. This study sought to redefine the Healthy People 2030 SDoH taxonomy…

cs.LG2021★ 98 cited

Predicting Intensive Care Unit Length of Stay and Mortality Using Patient Vital Signs: Machine Learning Model Development and Validation

Khalid Alghatani, Nariman Ammar, Abdelmounaam Rezgui +1

Patient monitoring is vital in all stages of care. We here report the development and validation of ICU length of stay and mortality prediction models. The models will be used in a…

cs.AI2021★ 41 cited

Using a Personal Health Library-Enabled mHealth Recommender System for Self-Management of Diabetes Among Underserved Populations: Use Case for Knowledge Graphs and Linked Data

Nariman Ammar, James E Bailey, Robert L Davis +1

Personal health libraries (PHLs) provide a single point of secure access to patients digital health data and enable the integration of knowledge stored in their digital health prof…

cs.AI2020★ 68 cited

Explainable Artificial Intelligence Recommendation System by Leveraging the Semantics of Adverse Childhood Experiences: Proof-of-Concept Prototype Development

Nariman Ammar, Arash Shaban-Nejad

The study of adverse childhood experiences and their consequences has emerged over the past 20 years. In this study, we aimed to leverage explainable artificial intelligence, and p…