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SARS-CoV2, which causes coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is continuing to spread globally and has become a pandemic. People have lost their lives due to the virus and the lack of counter measures in place. Given the increasing caseload and…

Pandemic outbreaks such as COVID-19 occur unexpectedly, and need immediate action due to their potential devastating consequences on global health. Point-of-care routine assessments such as electrocardiogram (ECG), can be used to develop…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-12 Weijie Sun , Sunil Vasu Kalmady , Nariman Sepehrvand , Luan Manh Chu , Zihan Wang , Amir Salimi , Abram Hindle , Russell Greiner , Padma Kaul

In this paper, a susceptible-infected-removed (SIR) model has been used to track the evolution of the spread of the COVID-19 virus in four countries of interest. In particular, the epidemic model, that depends on some basic characteristics,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-10-28 Ian Cooper , Argha Mondal , Chris G. Antonopoulos

This contribution analyzes the COVID-19 outbreak by comparably simple mathematical and numerical methods. The final goal is to predict the peak of the epidemic outbreak per country with a reliable technique. This is done by an algorithm…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-15 Robert Schaback

People increasingly search online for answers to their medical questions but the rate at which medical questions are asked online significantly exceeds the capacity of qualified people to answer them. This leaves many questions unanswered…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Clara H. McCreery , Namit Katariya , Anitha Kannan , Manish Chablani , Xavier Amatriain

With the pandemic of COVID-19, relevant fake news is spreading all over the sky throughout the social media. Believing in them without discrimination can cause great trouble to people's life. However, universal language models may perform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Ben Chen , Bin Chen , Dehong Gao , Qijin Chen , Chengfu Huo , Xiaonan Meng , Weijun Ren , Yang Zhou

Deep learning is gaining instant popularity in computer aided diagnosis of COVID-19. Due to the high sensitivity of Computed Tomography (CT) to this disease, CT-based COVID-19 detection with visual models is currently at the forefront of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Fouzia Altaf , Syed M. S. Islam , Naveed Akhtar

Social media data can be a very salient source of information during crises. User-generated messages provide a window into people's minds during such times, allowing us insights about their moods and opinions. Due to the vast amounts of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Anna Kruspe , Matthias Häberle , Iona Kuhn , Xiao Xiang Zhu

During the COVID-19 pandemic, people started to discuss about pandemic-related topics on social media. On subreddit \textit{r/COVID19positive}, a number of topics are discussed or being shared, including experience of those who got a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Yuhan Liu , Yuhan Gao , Zhifan Nan , Long Chen

Anticipating the quantity of new associated or affirmed cases with novel coronavirus ailment 2019 (COVID-19) is critical in the counteraction and control of the COVID-19 flare-up. The new associated cases with COVID-19 information were…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Tushar Sarkar , Umang Patel , Rupali Patil

We propose a compartmental mathematical model for the spread of the COVID-19 disease with special focus on the transmissibility of super-spreaders individuals. We compute the basic reproduction number threshold, we study the local stability…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-05 Faical Ndairou , Ivan Area , Juan J. Nieto , Delfim F. M. Torres

This paper formulates the problem of dynamically identifying key topics with proper labels from COVID-19 Tweets to provide an overview of wider public opinion. Nowadays, social media is one of the best ways to connect people through…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Khandaker Tayef Shahriar , Iqbal H. Sarker , Muhammad Nazrul Islam , Mohammad Ali Moni

Epidemic modeling is an essential tool to understand the spread of the novel coronavirus and ultimately assist in disease prevention, policymaking, and resource allocation. In this article, we establish a state of the art interface between…

Applications · Statistics 2020-12-17 Li Wang , Guannan Wang , Lei Gao , Xinyi Li , Shan Yu , Myungjin Kim , Yueying Wang , Zhiling Gu

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak was declared a pandemic in March 2020 and since then it has had a significant effect on all aspects of life. Although we live in an information era, we do not have accurate information about this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Amin Mahmoudi , Victoria Wai-lan Yeung , Eric W. K. See-To

The outbreak of COVID-19, beginning in 2019 and continuing through the time of writing, has led to renewed interest in the mathematical modeling of infectious disease. Recent works have focused on partial differential equation (PDE) models,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-26 Malú Grave , Alex Viguerie , Gabriel F. Barros , Alessandro Reali , Roberto F. S. Andrade , Alvaro L. G. A. Coutinho

Social scientists and psychologists take interest in understanding how people express emotions and sentiments when dealing with catastrophic events such as natural disasters, political unrest, and terrorism. The COVID-19 pandemic is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Rohitash Chandra , Aswin Krishna

COVID-19 has affected the world economy and the daily life routine of almost everyone. It has been a hot topic on social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, etc. These social media platforms enable users to share information with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Pervaiz Iqbal Khan , Imran Razzak , Andreas Dengel , Sheraz Ahmed

Automation of social network data assessment is one of the classic challenges of natural language processing. During the COVID-19 pandemic, mining people's stances from public messages have become crucial regarding understanding attitudes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Vadim Porvatov , Natalia Semenova

The abundance of literature related to the widespread COVID-19 pandemic is beyond manual inspection of a single expert. Development of systems, capable of automatically processing tens of thousands of scientific publications with the aim to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Matej Martinc , Blaž Škrlj , Sergej Pirkmajer , Nada Lavrač , Bojan Cestnik , Martin Marzidovšek , Senja Pollak

Using a random 10% sample of tweets authored from 2019-09-01 through 2020-04-30, we analyze the dynamic behavior of words (1-grams) used on Twitter to describe the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Across 24 languages, we find two distinct dynamic…