期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
卷 19, 期 15, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19159012
关键词
COVID-19; machine learning; health geomatics; geographic information system; emergency medical services; spatial filtering; geo-AI; resources management
This study proposes a COVID-19 early alert system based on Emergency Medical Services (EMS) data, utilizing a combination of geographical filtering and machine learning techniques to accurately identify the spread of the disease and anticipate intervention needs.
The pandemic of COVID-19 has posed unprecedented threats to healthcare systems worldwide. Great efforts were spent to fight the emergency, with the widespread use of cutting-edge technologies, especially big data analytics and AI. In this context, the present study proposes a novel combination of geographical filtering and machine learning (ML) for the development and optimization of a COVID-19 early alert system based on Emergency Medical Services (EMS) data, for the anticipated identification of outbreaks with very high granularity, up to single municipalities. The model, implemented for the region of Lombardy, Italy, showed robust performance, with an overall 80% accuracy in identifying the active spread of the disease. The further post-processing of the output was implemented to classify the territory into five risk classes, resulting in effectively anticipating the demand for interventions by EMS. This model shows state-of-art potentiality for future applications in the early detection of the burden of the impact of COVID-19, or other similar epidemics, on the healthcare system.
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