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Array (N Y) . Prediction of the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases based on K-means-LSTM

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. 2021 Sep;11:100085.
doi: 10.1016/j.array.2021.100085. Epub 2021 Aug 21.
Prediction of the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases based on K-means-LSTM


Shashank Reddy Vadyala[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Sai Nethra Betgeri[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Eric A Sherer[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Amod Amritphale[SUP] 3 [/SUP]



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Abstract

COVID-19 is a pandemic disease that began to rapidly spread in the US, with the first case detected on January 19, 2020, in Washington State. March 9, 2020, and then quickly increased with total cases of 25,739 as of April 20, 2020. Although most people with coronavirus 81%, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will have little to mild symptoms, others may rely on a ventilator to breathe or not at all. SEIR models have broad applicability in predicting the outcome of the population with a variety of diseases. However, many researchers use these models without validating the necessary hypotheses. Far too many researchers often "overfit" the data by using too many predictor variables and small sample sizes to create models. Models thus developed are unlikely to stand validity check on a separate group of population and regions. The researcher remains unaware that overfitting has occurred, without attempting such validation. In the paper, we present a combination algorithm that combines similar days features selection based on the region using Xgboost, K-Means, and long short-term memory (LSTM) neural networks to construct a prediction model (i.e., K-Means-LSTM) for short-term COVID-19 cases forecasting in Louisana state USA. The weighted k-means algorithm based on extreme gradient boosting is used to evaluate the similarity between the forecasts and past days. The results show that the method with K-Means-LSTM has a higher accuracy with an RMSE of 601.20 whereas the SEIR model with an RMSE of 3615.83.

Keywords: COVID-19; COVID-19, coronavirus disease; Coronavirus; Day level forecasting; Deep learning; LSTM, long short-term memory; Neural network; RMSE, root mean square error; SEIR Model; SEIR, Susceptible Exposed to Infectious Recovered; USA, United States of America; WHO, World Health Organization.
 
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