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Predicting the Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Chronic Diseases in Population with Human Mobility Data.

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Peer-reviewed

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Conference Object

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Authors

Wang, Yingzi 
Zhou, Xiao 
Noulas, Anastasios 
Xie, Xing 

Abstract

Chronic diseases like cancer and diabetes are major threats to human life. Understanding the distribution and progression of chronic disease of a population is important in assisting the allocation of treatment services and resources as well as the design of policies in preemptive healthcare. Traditional methods to obtain large scale indicators on population health, e.g., surveys and statistical analysis, can be costly and time-consuming and often lead to a coarse spatio-temporal picture. In this paper, we leverage a dataset describing the human mobility patterns of citizens in a large metropolitan area. By viewing local human lifestyles we predict the evolution rate of several chronic diseases at the level of a city neighborhood. We apply the combination of a collaborative topic modeling (CTM) and a Gaussian mixture method (GMM) to tackle the data sparsity challenge and achieve robust predictions on health conditions simultaneously. Our method enables the analysis and prediction of disease rate evolution at fine spatio-temporal scales and demonstrates the potential of incorporating datasets from mobile web sources to improve population health monitoring. Evaluations using real-world check-in and chronic disease morbidity datasets in the city of London show that the proposed CTM+GMM

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Keywords

4605 Data Management and Data Science, 46 Information and Computing Sciences, Networking and Information Technology R&D (NITRD), Metabolic and endocrine, Generic health relevance, 3 Good Health and Well Being

Journal Title

Proceedings of 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Conference Name

International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Journal ISSN

1045-0823

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Publisher

IJCAI