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ArticleIEEE transactions on computational social systems2021

COVID-19 Patient Count Prediction Using LSTM.

Muhammad Iqbal, Feras Al-Obeidat, Fahad Maqbool, Saad Razzaq, Sajid Anwar, Abdallah Tubaishat, Muhammad Shahrose Khan, Babar Shah

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Muhammad IqbalDepartment of Computer Science and Information TechnologyUniversity of Sargodha Sargodha 40100 Pakistan.
Feras Al-ObeidatCollege of Technological InnovationZayed University Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6941-6555
Fahad MaqboolDepartment of Computer Science and Information TechnologyUniversity of Sargodha Sargodha 40100 Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3969-5551
Saad RazzaqDepartment of Computer Science and Information TechnologyUniversity of Sargodha Sargodha 40100 Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2940-0836
Sajid AnwarCenter of Excellence in Information TechnologyInstitute of Management Sciences Peshawar 25100 Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3393-1656
Abdallah TubaishatCollege of Technological InnovationZayed University Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9621-3574
Muhammad Shahrose KhanDepartment of Computer ScienceNational University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Chiniot-Faisalabad Campus Chiniot 35400 Pakistan.
Babar ShahCollege of Information TechnologyZayed University Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5090-4695

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Abstract

In December 2019, a pandemic named COVID-19 broke out in Wuhan, China, and in a few weeks, it spread to more than 200 countries worldwide. Every country infected with the disease started taking necessary measures to stop the spread and provide the best possible medical facilities to infected patients and take precautionary measures to control the spread. As the infection spread was exponential, there arose a need to model infection spread patterns to estimate the patient volume computationally. Such patients' estimation is the key to the necessary actions that local governments may take to counter the spread, control hospital load, and resource allocations. This article has used long short-term memory (LSTM) to predict the volume of COVID-19 patients in Pakistan. LSTM is a particular type of recurrent neural network (RNN) used for classification, prediction, and regression tasks. We have trained the RNN model on Covid-19 data (March 2020 to May 2020) of Pakistan and predict the Covid-19 Percentage of Positive Patients for June 2020. Finally, we have calculated the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) to find the model's prediction effectiveness on different LSTM units, batch size, and epochs. Predicted patients are also compared with a prediction model for the same duration, and results revealed that the predicted patients' count of the proposed model is much closer to the actual patient count.

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Covid-19deep learningforecastinglong short-term memory (LSTM)pandemicsrisk estimationshort term predictio

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PMID37982037
PMCPMC8545011

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