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Medicine 2.0: Social Media, Open, Participatory, Collaborative Medicine (2734) Infodemiology and Infoveillance (2048) Public (e)Health, Digital Epidemiology and Public Health Informatics (2398) mHealth for Data Collection and Research (1789) Natural Language Processing (1346) mHealth for Telemedicine and Homecare (903) Infoveillance, Infodemiology, Digital Disease Surveillance, Infodemic Management (1426)

Published on in Vol 28 (2026)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/98164, first published .
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Real-Time Influenza Surveillance Using DeepSeek-Augmented BERT Classification on Chinese Social Media: Infodemiology Study

Real-Time Influenza Surveillance Using DeepSeek-Augmented BERT Classification on Chinese Social Media: Infodemiology Study

Authors of this article:

Shikai Chen1 Author Orcid Image ;   Chai Zhang2 Author Orcid Image ;   Xiyi Chen1 Author Orcid Image ;   Yan Zhao3 Author Orcid Image ;   Yuanyuan Zhang1 Author Orcid Image ;   Hao Zhang1 Author Orcid Image ;   Xiaofei Bian4 Author Orcid Image
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Shikai Chen   1 * , PhD ;   Chai Zhang   2 * , PhD ;   Xiyi Chen   1 * , PhD ;   Yan Zhao   3 , PhD ;   Yuanyuan Zhang   1 * , PhD ;   Hao Zhang   1 , PhD ;   Xiaofei Bian   4 , PhD

1 School of Public Health, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

2 The Second Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

3 Dalian Rehabilitation and Recuperation Center of Joint Logistics Support Force, Dalian, Liaoning, China

4 Department of Pediatrics, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

*these authors contributed equally

Corresponding Author:

  • Yuanyuan Zhang, PhD
  • School of Public Health, Dalian Medical University
  • 9 West Section, Lvshun South Road, Lvshunkou District
  • Dalian, Liaoning 116044
  • China
  • Phone: 86 18369448007
  • Email: zhangyuan@dmu.edu.cn