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Spatiotemporal evolution of COVID-19 in Portugal's Mainland with self-organizing maps.

Igor DuarteManuel Castro RibeiroMaria João PereiraPedro Pinto LeiteAndré Peralta-SantosLeonardo Azevedo
Published in: International journal of health geographics (2023)
The results show that SOM can be an effective tool to analysing the spatiotemporal behavior of COVID-19 and synthetize the history of the disease in mainland Portugal during the period in analysis. While SOM have been applied to diverse scientific fields, the application of SOM to study the spatiotemporal evolution of COVID-19 is still limited. This work illustrates how SOM can be used to describe the spatiotemporal behavior of epidemic events. While the example shown herein uses 14-days cumulative incidence curves, the same analysis can be performed using other relevant data such as mortality data, vaccination rates or even infection rates of other disease of infectious nature.
Keyphrases
  • coronavirus disease
  • sars cov
  • electronic health record
  • risk factors
  • big data
  • respiratory syndrome coronavirus
  • cardiovascular events
  • machine learning
  • coronary artery disease
  • artificial intelligence