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ArticleViruses2022

Finding Asymptomatic Spreaders in a COVID-19 Transmission Network by Graph Attention Networks.

Zeyi Liu, Yang Ma, Qing Cheng, Zhong Liu

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Article in Viruses, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Zeyi LiuCollege of Systems Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China.
Yang MaCollege of Systems Engineering, Aviation University of Air Force, Changchun 130000, China.
Qing ChengCollege of Systems Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China.
Zhong LiuCollege of Systems Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China.
National University of Defense Technology · CNPLA Air Force Aviation University · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the COVID-19 epidemic the mildly symptomatic and asymptomatic infections generate a substantial portion of virus spread; these undetected individuals make it difficult to assess the effectiveness of preventive measures as most epidemic prevention strategies are based on the detected data. Effectively identifying the undetected infections in local transmission will be of great help in COVID-19 control. In this work, we propose an RNA virus transmission network representation model based on graph attention networks (RVTR); this model is constructed using the principle of natural language processing to learn the information of gene sequence and using a graph attention network to catch the topological character of COVID-19 transmission networks. Since SARS-CoV-2 will mutate when it spreads, our approach makes use of graph context loss function, which can reflect that the genetic sequence of infections with close spreading relation will be more similar than those with a long distance, to train our model. Our approach shows its ability to find asymptomatic spreaders both on simulated and real COVID-19 datasets and performs better when compared with other network representation and feature extraction methods.

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COVID-19Asymptomatic InfectionsHumansSARS-CoV-2asymptomatic spreaderCOVID-19 transmission networkgraph attention networkgraph context loss function

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PMID36016280
PMCPMC9413350
OpenAlexW4288490694

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