Predicting COVID-19 community infection relative risk with a Dynamic Bayesian Network

Copyright © 2022 Johnson and Lulla..

As COVID-19 continues to impact the United States and the world at large it is becoming increasingly necessary to develop methods which predict local scale spread of the disease. This is especially important as newer variants of the virus are likely to emerge and threaten community spread. We develop a Dynamic Bayesian Network (DBN) to predict community-level relative risk of COVID-19 infection at the census tract scale in the U.S. state of Indiana. The model incorporates measures of social and environmental vulnerability-including environmental determinants of COVID-19 infection-into a spatial temporal prediction of infection relative risk 1-month into the future. The DBN significantly outperforms five other modeling techniques used for comparison and which are typically applied in spatial epidemiological applications. The logic behind the DBN also makes it very well-suited for spatial-temporal prediction and for "what-if" analysis. The research results also highlight the need for further research using DBN-type approaches that incorporate methods of artificial intelligence into modeling dynamic processes, especially prominent within spatial epidemiologic applications.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in public health - 10(2022) vom: 03., Seite 876691

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Johnson, Daniel P [VerfasserIn]
Lulla, Vijay [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Bayesian hierarchical spatial temporal modeling
Bayesian networks
COVID-19 relative risk
Dynamic Bayesian Network
Environmental justice
Environmental vulnerability
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Small area studies
Social vulnerability

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Date Completed 21.11.2022

Date Revised 20.01.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fpubh.2022.876691

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM349016224