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ArticleScientific reports2022

Machine learning for emerging infectious disease field responses.

Han-Yi Robert Chiu, Chun-Kai Hwang, Shey-Ying Chen, Fuh-Yuan Shih, Hsieh-Cheng Han, Chwan-Chuen King, John Reuben Gilbert, Cheng-Chung Fang, Yen-Jen Oyang

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors.

Han-Yi Robert Chiu *Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, No. 7 Chung Shan S. Road, Taipei, 100, Taiwan, ROC.
Chun-Kai Hwang *Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan, ROC.
Shey-Ying ChenDepartment of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, No. 7 Chung Shan S. Road, Taipei, 100, Taiwan, ROC.
Fuh-Yuan ShihDepartment of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, No. 7 Chung Shan S. Road, Taipei, 100, Taiwan, ROC.
Hsieh-Cheng HanResearch Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 115, Taiwan, ROC.
Chwan-Chuen KingInstitute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 100, Taiwan, ROC.
John Reuben GilbertDepartment of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan, ROC.
Cheng-Chung FangDepartment of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, No. 7 Chung Shan S. Road, Taipei, 100, Taiwan, ROC. conrad@ntu.edu.tw.
Yen-Jen OyangDepartment of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan, ROC. yjoyang@csie.ntu.edu.tw.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), including the latest COVID-19 pandemic, have emerged and raised global public health crises in recent decades. Without existing protective immunity, an EID may spread rapidly and cause mass casualties in a very short time. Therefore, it is imperative to identify cases with risk of disease progression for the optimized allocation of medical resources in case medical facilities are overwhelmed with a flood of patients. This study has aimed to cope with this challenge from the aspect of preventive medicine by exploiting machine learning technologies. The study has been based on 83,227 hospital admissions with influenza-like illness and we analysed the risk effects of 19 comorbidities along with age and gender for severe illness or mortality risk. The experimental results revealed that the decision rules derived from the machine learning based prediction models can provide valuable guidelines for the healthcare policy makers to develop an effective vaccination strategy. Furthermore, in case the healthcare facilities are overwhelmed by patients with EID, which frequently occurred in the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the frontline physicians can incorporate the proposed prediction models to triage patients suffering minor symptoms without laboratory tests, which may become scarce during an EID disaster. In conclusion, our study has demonstrated an effective approach to exploit machine learning technologies to cope with the challenges faced during the outbreak of an EID.

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Machine LearningCommunicable Diseases, EmergingCOVID-19HospitalizationHospital MortalityHumansInternational Classification of DiseasesLogistic ModelsModels, TheoreticalPandemicsPreventive MedicinePublic HealthRisk FactorsSARS-CoV-2Severity of Illness Index

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PMCPMC8748708

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