4 papers
Actively evaluating and learning the distinctions that matter: Vaccine safety signal detection from emergency triage notes
Sedigh Khademi, Christopher Palmer, Muhammad Javed +4
The rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines has showcased the global communitys ability to combat infectious diseases. However, the need for post-licensure surveillance systems has…
Enhancing Vaccine Safety Surveillance: Extracting Vaccine Mentions from Emergency Department Triage Notes Using Fine-Tuned Large Language Models
Sedigh Khademi, Jim Black, Christopher Palmer +4
This study evaluates fine-tuned Llama 3.2 models for extracting vaccine-related information from emergency department triage notes to support near real-time vaccine safety surveill…
VaxPulse: Monitoring of Online Public Concerns to Enhance Post-licensure Vaccine Surveillance
Muhammad Javed, Sedigh Khademi, Joanne Hickman +3
The recent vaccine-related infodemic has amplified public concerns, highlighting the need for proactive misinformation management. We describe how we enhanced the reporting surveil…
VaxPulse: Active Global Vaccine Infodemic Risk Assessment
Gerardo Luis Dimaguila, Muhammad Javed, Jeremiah Munakabayo +4
Vaccine infodemics, driven by misinformation, disinformation, and inauthentic online behaviours, pose significant threats to global public health. This paper presents our response…