Alafif T, Etaiwi A, Hawsawi Y, Alrefaei A, Albassam A, Althobaiti H. DISCOVID: discovering patterns of COVID-19 infection from recovered patients: a case study in Saudi Arabia.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY : AN OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF BHARATI VIDYAPEETH'S INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS AND MANAGEMENT 2022;
14:2825-2838. [PMID:
35812263 PMCID:
PMC9251043 DOI:
10.1007/s41870-022-00973-2]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2022] [Accepted: 04/25/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
A respiratory syndrome COVID-19 pandemic has become a serious global concern. Still, a large number of people have been daily infected worldwide. Discovering COVID-19 infection patterns is significant for health providers towards understanding the infection factors. Current COVID-19 research works have not been attempted to discover the infection patterns, yet. In this paper, we employ an Association Rules Apriori (ARA) algorithm to discover the infection patterns from COVID-19 recovered patients' data. A non-clinical COVID-19 dataset is introduced and analyzed. A sample of recovered patients' data is manually collected in Saudi Arabia. Our manual computation and experimental results show strong associative rules with high confidence scores among males, weight above 70 kilograms, height above 160 centimeters, and fever patterns. These patterns are the strongest infection patterns discovered from COVID-19 recovered patients' data.
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