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During disasters, extracting causal relations from social media can strengthen situational awareness by identifying factors linked to casualties, physical damage, infrastructure disruption, and cascading impacts. However, disaster-related…

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Although social media provides a vibrant platform to discuss real-world events, the quantity of information generated can overwhelm decision making based on that information. By better understanding who is participating in information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Rahul Pandey , Hemant Purohit , Jennifer Chan , Aditya Johri

For preventing youth suicide, social media platforms have received much attention from researchers. A few researches apply machine learning, or deep learning-based text classification approaches to classify social media posts containing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Siqu Long , Rina Cabral , Josiah Poon , Soyeon Caren Han

When major disaster occurs the questions are raised how to estimate the damage in time to support the decision making process and relief efforts by local authorities or humanitarian teams. In this paper we consider the use of Machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Alexey Trekin , German Novikov , Georgy Potapov , Vladimir Ignatiev , Evgeny Burnaev

During crisis situations, social media allows people to quickly share information, including messages requesting help. This can be valuable to emergency responders, who need to categorise and prioritise these messages based on the type of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Congcong Wang

During time-critical situations such as natural disasters, rapid classification of data posted on social networks by affected people is useful for humanitarian organizations to gain situational awareness and to plan response efforts.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Firoj Alam , Shafiq Joty , Muhammad Imran

Medical imaging is an essential tool for diagnosing various healthcare diseases and conditions. However, analyzing medical images is a complex and time-consuming task that requires expertise and experience. This article aims to design a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-15 Ayyub Alzahem , Shahid Latif , Wadii Boulila , Anis Koubaa

Hurricanes cause widespread destruction, resulting in diverse damage types and severities that require timely and accurate assessment for effective disaster response. While traditional single-label classification methods fall short of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Zhangding Liu , Neda Mohammadi , John E. Taylor

Curating a large scale medical imaging dataset for machine learning applications is both time consuming and expensive. Balancing the workload between model development, data collection and annotations is difficult for machine learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Athanasios Vlontzos , Hadrien Reynaud , Bernhard Kainz

In the past ten years, with the help of deep learning, especially the rapid development of deep neural networks, medical image analysis has made remarkable progress. However, how to effectively use the relational information between various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Zhihua Liu

Medical data poses a daunting challenge for AI algorithms: it exists in many different modalities, experiences frequent distribution shifts, and suffers from a scarcity of examples and labels. Recent advances, including transformers and…

Understanding causality between real-world events from social media is essential for situational awareness, yet existing causal discovery methods often overlook the interplay between semantic, spatial, and temporal contexts. We propose…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Hieu Duong , Eugene Levin , Todd Gary , Long Nguyen

The scarcity of high-quality data remains a primary bottleneck in adapting multimodal generative models for medical image editing. Existing medical image editing datasets often suffer from limited diversity, neglect of medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yongfan Lai , Wen Qian , Bo Liu , Hongyan Li , Hao Luo , Fan Wang , Bohan Zhuang , Shenda Hong

Research shows that exposure to suicide-related news media content is associated with suicide rates, with some content characteristics likely having harmful and others potentially protective effects. Although good evidence exists for a few…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Hannah Metzler , Hubert Baginski , Thomas Niederkrotenthaler , David Garcia

Social media are more than just a one-way communication channel. Data can be collected, analyzed and contextualized to support disaster risk management. However, disaster management agencies typically use such added-value information to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Markus Enenkel , Sofia Martinez Saenz , Denyse S. Dookie , Lisette Braman , Nick Obradovich , Yury Kryvasheyeu

Effective communication is central to achieving positive healthcare outcomes in mental health contexts, yet international students often face linguistic and cultural barriers that hinder their communication of mental distress. In this…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-05 Sui He , Shenbin Qian

Deep learning has received extensive research interest in developing new medical image processing algorithms, and deep learning based models have been remarkably successful in a variety of medical imaging tasks to support disease detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Xuxin Chen , Ximin Wang , Ke Zhang , Kar-Ming Fung , Theresa C. Thai , Kathleen Moore , Robert S. Mannel , Hong Liu , Bin Zheng , Yuchen Qiu

Algorithmic image-based diagnosis and prognosis of neurodegenerative diseases on longitudinal data has drawn great interest from computer vision researchers. The current state-of-the-art models for many image classification tasks are based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-04 Jie Zhang , Qingyang Li , Richard J. Caselli , Jieping Ye , Yalin Wang

First responders are increasingly using social media to identify and reduce crime for well-being and safety of the society. Images shared on social media hurting religious, political, communal and other sentiments of people, often instigate…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Sonal Goel , Niharika Sachdeva , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru , A V Subramanyam , Divam Gupta

We present a new publicly available dataset with the goal of advancing multi-modality learning by offering vision and language data within the same context. This is achieved by obtaining data from a social media website with posts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Bofan Xue , David Chan , John Canny