Search Results - "Kamel, Maged"

COVID-19 Misinformation Online and Health Literacy: A Brief Overview by Bin Naeem, Salman, Kamel Boulos, Maged N

“…Low digital health literacy affects large percentages of populations around the world and is a direct contributor to the spread of COVID-19-related online…”
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Digital Twins: From Personalised Medicine to Precision Public Health by Kamel Boulos, Maged N., Zhang, Peng

“…A digital twin is a virtual model of a physical entity, with dynamic, bi-directional links between the physical entity and its corresponding twin in the…”
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Geographical tracking and mapping of coronavirus disease COVID-19/severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic and associated events around the world: how 21st century GIS technologies are supporting the global fight against outbreaks and epidemics by Kamel Boulos, Maged N, Geraghty, Estella M

“…In December 2019, a new virus (initially called 'Novel Coronavirus 2019-nCoV' and later renamed to SARS-CoV-2) causing severe acute respiratory syndrome…”
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Health Digital Twins in Life Science and Health Care Innovation by Venkatesh, Kaushik P, Brito, Gabriel, Kamel Boulos, Maged N

“…Health digital twins (HDTs) are virtual representations of real individuals that can be used to simulate human physiology, disease, and drug effects. HDTs can…”
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An overview of GeoAI applications in health and healthcare by Kamel Boulos, Maged N, Peng, Guochao, VoPham, Trang

“…The moulding together of artificial intelligence (AI) and the geographic/geographic information systems (GIS) dimension creates GeoAI. There is an emerging…”
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Geospatial blockchain: promises, challenges, and scenarios in health and healthcare by Kamel Boulos, Maged N, Wilson, James T, Clauson, Kevin A

“…A PubMed query run in June 2018 using the keyword 'blockchain' retrieved 40 indexed papers, a reflection of the growing interest in blockchain among the…”
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Generative AI in Medicine and Healthcare: Promises, Opportunities and Challenges by Zhang, Peng, Kamel Boulos, Maged N

“…Generative AI (artificial intelligence) refers to algorithms and models, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, that can be prompted to generate various types of content…”
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Crowdsourcing, citizen sensing and sensor web technologies for public and environmental health surveillance and crisis management: trends, OGC standards and application examples by Kamel Boulos, Maged N, Resch, Bernd, Crowley, David N, Breslin, John G, Sohn, Gunho, Burtner, Russ, Pike, William A, Jezierski, Eduardo, Chuang, Kuo-Yu Slayer

“…'Wikification of GIS by the masses' is a phrase-term first coined by Kamel Boulos in 2005, two years earlier than Goodchild's term 'Volunteered Geographic…”
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Real-time locating systems (RTLS) in healthcare: a condensed primer by Kamel Boulos, Maged N, Berry, Geoff

“…Real-time locating systems (RTLS, also known as real-time location systems) have become an important component of many existing ubiquitous location aware…”
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From urban planning and emergency training to Pokémon Go: applications of virtual reality GIS (VRGIS) and augmented reality GIS (ARGIS) in personal, public and environmental health by Kamel Boulos, Maged N, Lu, Zhihan, Guerrero, Paul, Jennett, Charlene, Steed, Anthony

“…The latest generation of virtual and mixed reality hardware has rekindled interest in virtual reality GIS (VRGIS) and augmented reality GIS (ARGIS)…”
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Leveraging Data Science to Combat COVID-19: A Comprehensive Review by Latif, Siddique, Usman, Muhammad, Manzoor, Sanaullah, Iqbal, Waleed, Qadir, Junaid, Tyson, Gareth, Castro, Ignacio, Razi, Adeel, Boulos, Maged N. Kamel, Weller, Adrian, Crowcroft, Jon

“…COVID-19, an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in March 2020. By mid-August…”
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Privacy-by-Design Environments for Large-Scale Health Research and Federated Learning from Data by Zhang, Peng, Kamel Boulos, Maged N

“…This article offers a brief overview of 'privacy-by-design (or data-protection-by-design) research environments', namely Trusted Research Environments (TREs,…”
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Smart city lifestyle sensing, big data, geo-analytics and intelligence for smarter public health decision-making in overweight, obesity and type 2 diabetes prevention: the research we should be doing by Kamel Boulos, Maged N, Koh, Keumseok

“…The public health burden caused by overweight, obesity (OO) and type-2 diabetes (T2D) is very significant and continues to rise worldwide. The causation of OO…”
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On the Internet of Things, smart cities and the WHO Healthy Cities by Kamel Boulos, Maged N, Al-Shorbaji, Najeeb M

“…This article gives a brief overview of the Internet of Things (IoT) for cities, offering examples of IoT-powered 21st century smart cities, including the…”
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ChatGPT in clinical toxicology by Sabry Abdel-Messih, Mary, Kamel Boulos, Maged N.

“…©Mary Sabry Abdel-Messih, Maged N Kamel Boulos. Originally published in JMIR Medical Education (https://mededu.jmir.org), 08.03.2023. This is an open-access…”
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Web GIS in practice X: a Microsoft Kinect natural user interface for Google Earth navigation by Boulos, Maged N Kamel, Blanchard, Bryan J, Walker, Cory, Montero, Julio, Tripathy, Aalap, Gutierrez-Osuna, Ricardo

“…This paper covers the use of depth sensors such as Microsoft Kinect and ASUS Xtion to provide a natural user interface (NUI) for controlling 3-D…”
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Big Geospatial Data or Geospatial Big Data? A Systematic Narrative Review on the Use of Spatial Data Infrastructures for Big Geospatial Sensing Data in Public Health by Koh, Keumseok, Hyder, Ayaz, Karale, Yogita, Kamel Boulos, Maged N.

“…Background: Often combined with other traditional and non-traditional types of data, geospatial sensing data have a crucial role in public health studies. We…”
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Integrating Social and Family Support as a Measure of Health Outcomes: Validity Implications from the Integrated Model of Health Literacy by Faiola, Anthony, Kamel Boulos, Maged N, Bin Naeem, Salman, Ur-Rehman, Aziz

“…(1) Background: Health literacy (HL) is one of the key determinants of health and healthcare outcomes. The objectives of this study are to measure and validate…”
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Head-Mounted Virtual Reality and Mental Health: Critical Review of Current Research by Jerdan, Shaun W, Grindle, Mark, van Woerden, Hugo C, Kamel Boulos, Maged N

“…eHealth interventions are becoming increasingly used in public health, with virtual reality (VR) being one of the most exciting recent developments. VR…”
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Instagram and WhatsApp in Health and Healthcare: An Overview by Kamel Boulos, Maged, Giustini, Dean, Wheeler, Steve

“…Instagram and WhatsApp are two social media and networking services introduced in 2010. They are currently subsidiaries of Facebook, Inc., California, USA…”
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