Cited by 77Data-Driven Disease SurveillanceCOVID-19 epidemiological studiesCOVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing

Learning from Large-Scale Wearable Device Data for Predicting the Epidemic Trend of COVID-19

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Zhu, Guokang, Li, Jia, Meng, Zi, Yu, Yi, Li, Yanan, Tang, Xiao, Dong, Yuling, Sun, Guangxin +4 more·2020·Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has triggered a new response involving public health surveillance. The popularity of personal wearable devices creates a new opportunity for tracking and precaution of spread of such infectious diseases. In this study, we propose a framework, which is based on the heart rate and sleep data collected from wearable devices, to predict the epidemic trend of COVID-19 in different countries and cities. In addition to a physiological anomaly detection algorithm defined based on data from wearable devices, an online neural network prediction modelling methodology combining both detected physiological anomaly rate and historical COVID-19 infection rate is explored. Four models are trained separately according to geographical segmentation, i.e., North China, Central China, South China, and South-Central Europe. The anonymised sensor data from approximately 1.3 million wearable device users are used for model verification. Our experiment's results indicate that the prediction models can be utilized to alert to an outbreak of COVID-19 in advance, which suggests there is potential for a health surveillance system utilising wearable device data.

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Authors
Zhu, G., Li, J., Meng, Z., Yu, Y., Li, Y., Tang, X., Dong, Y., Sun, G., Zhou, R., Wang, H., Wang, K., & Huang, W.
Affiliations
Huami Corporation, Hefei, China
Corresponding author
Wang, Kongqiao
Venue
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2020-05-05
Volume
2020
Pages
1-8
ISSN
  • 1026-0226 (ISSN-L)
  • 1607-887X
OpenAlex
W3023696618
Cited by
77
References
23
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 17
FWCI
11.30
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Informationszentrum Lebenswissenschaften (ZB MED) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
Huami Corporation
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
  • Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Modeling and Simulation › COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing
Keywords
COVID-19 pandemic, epidemic forecasting, wearable devices, heart rate, sleep data, disease surveillance, outbreak early warning, geographical segmentation

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