Forecasting the monthly incidence rate of brucellosis in west of Iran using time series and data mining from 2010 to 2019.

Hadi BagheriLeili TapakManoochehr KaramiZahra HosseinkhaniHamidreza NajariSafdar KarimiZahra Cheraghi

Published in: PloS one (2020)

The multilayer perceptron neural network can be used as an effective method in detecting the behavioral trend of brucellosis over time. Nevertheless, further studies focusing on the application and comparison of these methods are needed to detect the most appropriate forecast method for this disease.

Keyphrases

neural network
risk factors
electronic health record
big data
case control
clinical evaluation