Title
Dynamic Hybrid Model to Forecast the Spread of COVID-19 Using LSTM and Behavioral Models Under Uncertainty
Abstract
To accurately predict the regional spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection, this study proposes a novel hybrid model, which combines a long short-term memory (LSTM) artificial recurrent neural network with dynamic behavioral models. Several factors and control strategies affect the virus spread, and the uncertainty arising from confounding variables underlying the spread of the COVID-19 infection is substantial. The proposed model considers the effect of multiple factors to enhance the accuracy in predicting the number of cases and deaths across the top ten most-affected countries at the time of the study. The results show that the proposed model closely replicates the test data, such that not only it provides accurate predictions but it also replicates the daily behavior of the system under uncertainty. The hybrid model outperforms the LSTM model while accounting for data limitation. The parameters of the hybrid models are optimized using a genetic algorithm for each country to improve the prediction power while considering regional properties. Since the proposed model can accurately predict the short-term to medium-term daily spreading of the COVID-19 infection, it is capable of being used for policy assessment, planning, and decision making.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TCYB.2021.3120967
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
COVID-19,Forecasting,Humans,Neural Networks, Computer,Uncertainty
Journal
52
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
11
2168-2267
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zandavi Seid Miad100.68
taha hossein rashidi2153.30
Fatemeh Vafaee3646.48