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ArticleApplied soft computing2021

Real-time prediction of COVID-19 patients health situations using Artificial Neural Networks and Fuzzy Interval Mathematical modeling.

Mohamed Ali Elleuch, Amal Ben Hassena, Mohamed Abdelhedi, Francisco Silva Pinto

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Article in Applied soft computing, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Mohamed Ali ElleuchOptimization, Logistics and Informatics Decisions Research Laboratory (OLID), Higher Institute of Industrial Management of Sfax, University of Sfax, BP-2021, Sfax, Tunisia.
Amal Ben HassenaToxicology Environmental Microbiology and Health Research Laboratory (LR17ES06), Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, University of Sfax, BP-3038, Tunisia.
Mohamed AbdelhediModeling of Geological and Hydrological Systems Research Laboratory GEOMODEL (LR16ES17), Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, University of Sfax, BP-3038 Sfax, Tunisia.
Francisco Silva PintoCERIS, IST, University of Lisbon, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal.

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Abstract

At the end of 2019, the SARS-CoV-2 virus caused an outbreak of COVID-19 disease. The spread of this once-in-a-century pathogen increases demand for appropriate medical care, which strains the capacity and resources of hospitals in a critical way. Given the limited time available to prepare for the required demand, health care administrators fear they will not be ready to face patient's influx. To aid health managers with the Prioritization and Scheduling COVID-19 Patients problem, a tool based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) through the Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) method, and Operations Research (OR) through a Fuzzy Interval Mathematical model was developed. The results indicated that combining both models provides an effective assessment under scarce initial information to select a suitable list of patients for a set of hospitals. The proposed approach allows to achieve a key goal: minimizing death rates under each hospital constraints of available resources. Furthermore, there is a serious concern regarding the resurgence of the COVID-19 virus which could cause a more severe pandemic. Thus, the main outcome of this study is the application of the above-mentioned approaches, especially when combining them, as efficient tools serving health establishments to manage critical resources.

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Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) methodFuzzy Interval Mathematical (FIM) modelOR in medicinePrioritization and scheduling COVID-19 patients (PSP)Scheduling

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PMCPMC8225317

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