Our book, Handbook of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence edited by Song Gao, Yingjie Hu, and Wenwen Li, is published. It is my pleasure to contribute to the comprehensive handbook as a co-author of the chapter, GeoAI for Public Health. Special thanks to Andreas Züfle for his lead in writing the chapter.
Chapter
GeoAI for Public Health
By Andreas Züfle, Taylor Anderson, Hamdi Kavak, Dieter Pfoser, Joon-Seok Kim, Amira Roess.| Book | Handbook of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence |
| Edition | 1st Edition | First Published | 2023 |
| Imprint | CRC Press |
| Pages | 25 |
| eBook ISBN | 9781003308423 |
ABSTRACT
Infectious disease spread within the human population can be conceptualized as a complex system composed of individuals who interact and transmit viruses through spatio-temporal processes that manifest across and between scales. The complexity of this system ultimately means that the spread of infectious diseases is difficult to understand, predict, and respond to effectively. Research interest in GeoAI for public health has been fueled by the increased availability of rich data sources such as human mobility data, OpenStreetMap data, contact tracing data, symptomatic online surveys, retail and commerce data, genomics data, and more. This data availability has resulted in a wide variety of data-driven solutions for infectious disease spread prediction which show potential in enhancing our forecasting capabilities. This chapter (1) motivates the need for AI-based solutions in public health by showing the heterogeneity of human behavior related to health, (2) provides a brief survey of current state-of-the-art solutions using AI for infectious disease spread prediction, (3) describes a use-case of using large-scale human mobility data to inform AI models for the prediction of infectious disease spread in a city, and (4) provides future research directions and ideas.
