2020/03/27 by Yanfang Ye, Ye, Yanfang, Shifu Hou +13 · 1 citation
Medicine · Mathematics · #Data-Driven Disease Surveillance #COVID-19 diagnosis using AI #COVID-19 epidemiological studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2003.12232
The novel coronavirus and its deadly outbreak have posed grand challenges to\nhuman society: as of March 26, 2020, there have been 85,377 confirmed cases and\n1,293 reported deaths in the United States; and the World Health Organization\n(WHO) characterized coronavirus disease (COVID-19) - which has infected more\nthan 531,000 people with more than 24,000 deaths in at least 171 countries - a\nglobal pandemic. A growing number of areas reporting local sub-national\ncommunity transmission would represent a significant turn for the worse in the\nbattle against the novel coronavirus, which points to an urgent need for\nexpanded surveillance so we can better understand the spread of COVID-19 and\nthus better respond with actionable strategies for community mitigation. By\nadvancing capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) and leveraging the\nlarge-scale and real-time data generated from heterogeneous sources (e.g.,\ndisease related data from official public health organizations, demographic\ndata, mobility data, and user geneated data from social media), in this work,\nwe propose and develop an AI-driven system (named \α-Satellite, as an\ninitial offering, to provide hierarchical community-level risk assessment to\nassist with the development of strategies for combating the fast evolving\nCOVID-19 pandemic. More specifically, given a specific location (either user\ninput or automatic positioning), the developed system will automatically\nprovide risk indexes associated with it in a hierarchical manner (e.g., state,\ncounty, city, specific location) to enable individuals to select appropriate\nactions for protection while minimizing disruptions to daily life to the extent\npossible. The developed system and the generated benchmark datasets have been\nmade publicly accessible through our website. The system description and\ndisclaimer are also available in our website.\n