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Complexity-Based Spatial Hierarchical Clustering for Malaria Prediction.
| Content Provider | Europe PMC |
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| Author | Haddawy, Peter Yin, Myat Su Wisanrakkit, Tanawan Limsupavanich, Rootrada Promrat, Promporn Lawpoolsri, Saranath Sa-angchai, Patiwat |
| Abstract | Targeted intervention and resource allocation are essential in effective control of infectious diseases, particularly those like malaria that tend to occur in remote areas. Disease prediction models can help support targeted intervention, particularly if they have fine spatial resolution. But, choosing an appropriate resolution is a difficult problem since choice of spatial scale can have a significant impact on accuracy of predictive models. In this paper, we introduce a new approach to spatial clustering for disease prediction we call complexity-based spatial hierarchical clustering. The technique seeks to find spatially compact clusters that have time series that can be well characterized by models of low complexity. We evaluate our approach with 2 years of malaria case data from Tak Province in northern Thailand. We show that the technique’s use of reduction in Akaike information criterion (AIC) and Bayesian information criterion (BIC) as clustering criteria leads to rapid improvement in predictability and significantly better predictability than clustering based only on minimizing spatial intra-cluster distance for the entire range of cluster sizes over a variety of predictive models and prediction horizons. |
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| ISSN | 25094971 |
| Volume Number | 2 |
| DOI | 10.1007/s41666-018-0031-z |
| PubMed Central reference number | PMC8982740 |
| Issue Number | 4 |
| PubMed reference number | 35415412 |
| Journal | Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research [J Healthc Inform Res] |
| e-ISSN | 2509498X |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing |
| Publisher Date | 2018-08-21 |
| Publisher Place | Gewerbestrasse 11, Cham, Ch 6330, Switzerland |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018 |
| Subject Keyword | Malaria prediction Spatial epidemiology Spatial clustering Akaike information criterion Bayesian information criterion |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Artificial Intelligence Information Systems Health Informatics Computer Science Applications |