A GIS-aided cellular automata system for monitoring and estimating graph-based spread of epidemics

Kyriakou, Charilaos; Georgoudas, Ioakeim G.; Papanikolaou, Nick

doi:10.1007/s11047-022-09891-5

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“…GIS-based disease modeling refers to the identification of key features such as the location of disease occurrence, the intensity of the disease in a specific location, the pattern of disease spread, and the eventual spatial relationship among affected areas. In [ 50 ], the authors monitored and estimated the spread of epidemics in the real world by using Cellular Automata (CA). In [ 51 ], a review of 63 articles that used GIS-based approaches to find the distribution patterns of COVID-19 is presented.…”

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Vaccine sentiment analysis using BERT + NBSVM and geo-spatial approaches

2023

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Since the spread of the coronavirus flu in 2019 (hereafter referred to as COVID-19), millions of people worldwide have been affected by the pandemic, which has significantly impacted our habits in various ways. In order to eradicate the disease, a great help came from unprecedentedly fast vaccines development along with strict preventive measures adoption like lockdown. Thus, world wide provisioning of vaccines was crucial in order to achieve the maximum immunization of population. However, the fast development of vaccines, driven by the urge of limiting the pandemic caused skeptical reactions by a vast amount of population. More specifically, the people’s hesitancy in getting vaccinated was an additional obstacle in fighting COVID-19. To ameliorate this scenario, it is important to understand people’s sentiments about vaccines in order to take proper actions to better inform the population. As a matter of fact, people continuously update their feelings and sentiments on social media, thus a proper analysis of those opinions is an important challenge for providing proper information to avoid misinformation. More in detail, sentiment analysis (Wankhade et al. in Artif Intell Rev 55(7):5731–5780, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-022-10144-1) is a powerful technique in natural language processing that enables the identification and classification of people feelings (mainly) in text data. It involves the use of machine learning algorithms and other computational techniques to analyze large volumes of text and determine whether they express positive, negative or neutral sentiment. Sentiment analysis is widely used in industries such as marketing, customer service, and healthcare, among others, to gain actionable insights from customer feedback, social media posts, and other forms of unstructured textual data. In this paper, Sentiment Analysis will be used to elaborate on people reaction to COVID-19 vaccines in order to provide useful insights to improve the correct understanding of their correct usage and possible advantages. In this paper, a framework that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) methods is proposed for classifying tweets based on their polarity values. We analyzed Twitter data related to COVID-19 vaccines after the most appropriate pre-processing on them. More specifically, we identified the word-cloud of negative, positive, and neutral words using an artificial intelligence tool to determine the sentiment of tweets. After this pre-processing step, we performed classification using the BERT + NBSVM model to classify people’s sentiments about vaccines. The reason for choosing to combine bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT) and Naive Bayes and support vector machine (NBSVM ) can be understood by considering the limitation of BERT-based approaches, which only leverage encoder layers, resulting in lower performance on short texts like the ones used in our analysis. Such a limitation can be ameliorated by using Naive Bayes and Support Vector Machine approaches that are able to achieve higher performance in short text sentiment analysis. Thus, we took advantage of both BERT features and NBSVM features to define a flexible framework for our sentiment analysis goal related to vaccine sentiment identification. Moreover, we enrich our results with spatial analysis of the data by using geo-coding, visualization, and spatial correlation analysis to suggest the most suitable vaccination centers to users based on the sentiment analysis outcomes. In principle, we do not need to implement a distributed architecture to run our experiments as the available public data are not massive. However, we discuss a high-performance architecture that will be used if the collected data scales up dramatically. We compared our approach with the state-of-art methods by comparing most widely used metrics like Accuracy, Precision, Recall and F-measure. The proposed BERT + NBSVM outperformed alternative models by achieving 73% accuracy, 71% precision, 88% recall and 73% F-measure for classification of positive sentiments while 73% accuracy, 71% precision, 74% recall and 73% F-measure for classification of negative sentiments respectively. These promising results will be properly discussed in next sections. The use of artificial intelligence methods and social media analysis can lead to a better understanding of people’s reactions and opinions about any trending topic. However, in the case of health-related topics like COVID-19 vaccines, proper sentiment identification could be crucial for implementing public health policies. More in detail, the availability of useful findings on user opinions about vaccines can help policymakers design proper strategies and implement ad-hoc vaccination protocols according to people’s feelings, in order to provide better public service. To this end, we leveraged geospatial information to support effective recommendations for vaccination centers.

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Vaccine sentiment analysis using BERT + NBSVM and geo-spatial approaches

2023

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Spatial dynamics of COVID-19 in São Paulo: A cellular automata and GIS approach

Barreto,

Pereira,

Perez

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Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology

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The Geographic Automata Tool: A New General-Purpose Geosimulation Extension for ArcGIS Pro

van Duynhoven,

Dragićević

2024

Applied Sciences

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The theoretical paradigm of geographic automata systems (GAS) underpins a wide range of studies to represent dynamic complex geospatial phenomena. Specifically, cellular automata (CA) were used extensively over the past 40 years for geospatial applications, though primarily for modeling urban growth. Currently, the hyper-specialized and fragmented geospatial technology ecosystem supporting CA model implementation often necessitates programmed solutions or use of disconnected programs with graphical user interfaces (GUIs) separate from common geographic information systems (GIS) software. Therefore, the main goal of this study is to present a general-purpose, GIS-based CA modeling framework and extension for Esri’s ArcGIS Pro software environment. The methodological approach centered around (1) developing generic functions for building binary or multi-class CA models to capture various spatiotemporal systems and (2) enabling end-to-end CA modeling projects that can incorporate built-in functionality available in ArcGIS Pro versions 3.1 and newer. Two case studies demonstrate the add-in capabilities to support geosimulation model-building activities and exploration of new hybrid models. This research contributes to advancing flexible, transparent spatiotemporal modeling tools within existing GIS software. The proposed approach addresses the lack of streamlined geospatial technologies capable of simulating numerous dynamic geospatial phenomena, exploring human and environmental processes, and examining possible futures with CA in research, decision making, or educational settings.

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A GIS-aided cellular automata system for monitoring and estimating graph-based spread of epidemics

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Vaccine sentiment analysis using BERT + NBSVM and geo-spatial approaches

Vaccine sentiment analysis using BERT + NBSVM and geo-spatial approaches

Spatial dynamics of COVID-19 in São Paulo: A cellular automata and GIS approach

The Geographic Automata Tool: A New General-Purpose Geosimulation Extension for ArcGIS Pro

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