Deep Learning for Disease Outbreak Prediction: A Robust Early Warning Signal for Transcritical Bifurcations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07764v1
• Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:47:05 GMT
• Title: Deep Learning for Disease Outbreak Prediction: A Robust Early Warning Signal for Transcritical Bifurcations
• Authors: Reza Miry, Amit K. Chakraborty, Russell Greiner, Mark A. Lewis, Hao Wang, Tianyu Guan, Pouria Ramazi,
• Abstract summary: Early Warning Signals (EWSs) are vital for implementing preventive measures before a disease turns into a pandemic. measurements during disease outbreaks are often corrupted by different noise sources. This study bridges advancements in deep learning with the ability to provide robust early warning signals in noisy environments.
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• Abstract: Early Warning Signals (EWSs) are vital for implementing preventive measures before a disease turns into a pandemic. While new diseases exhibit unique behaviors, they often share fundamental characteristics from a dynamical systems perspective. Moreover, measurements during disease outbreaks are often corrupted by different noise sources, posing challenges for Time Series Classification (TSC) tasks. In this study, we address the problem of having a robust EWS for disease outbreak prediction using a best-performing deep learning model in the domain of TSC. We employed two simulated datasets to train the model: one representing generated dynamical systems with randomly selected polynomial terms to model new disease behaviors, and another simulating noise-induced disease dynamics to account for noisy measurements. The model's performance was analyzed using both simulated data from different disease models and real-world data, including influenza and COVID-19. Results demonstrate that the proposed model outperforms previous models, effectively providing EWSs of impending outbreaks across various scenarios. This study bridges advancements in deep learning with the ability to provide robust early warning signals in noisy environments, making it highly applicable to real-world crises involving emerging disease outbreaks.

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