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Main Authors: Kuo, Kuan-Ting, Moukheiber, Dana, Ordonez, Sebastian Cajas, Restrepo, David, Paddo, Atika Rahman, Chen, Tsung-Yu, Moukheiber, Lama, Moukheiber, Mira, Moukheiber, Sulaiman, Purkayastha, Saptarshi, Kuo, Po-Chih, Celi, Leo Anthony
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11114
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author Kuo, Kuan-Ting
Moukheiber, Dana
Ordonez, Sebastian Cajas
Restrepo, David
Paddo, Atika Rahman
Chen, Tsung-Yu
Moukheiber, Lama
Moukheiber, Mira
Moukheiber, Sulaiman
Purkayastha, Saptarshi
Kuo, Po-Chih
Celi, Leo Anthony
author_facet Kuo, Kuan-Ting
Moukheiber, Dana
Ordonez, Sebastian Cajas
Restrepo, David
Paddo, Atika Rahman
Chen, Tsung-Yu
Moukheiber, Lama
Moukheiber, Mira
Moukheiber, Sulaiman
Purkayastha, Saptarshi
Kuo, Po-Chih
Celi, Leo Anthony
contents Dengue fever presents a substantial challenge in developing countries where sanitation infrastructure is inadequate. The absence of comprehensive healthcare systems exacerbates the severity of dengue infections, potentially leading to life-threatening circumstances. Rapid response to dengue outbreaks is also challenging due to limited information exchange and integration. While timely dengue outbreak forecasts have the potential to prevent such outbreaks, the majority of dengue prediction studies have predominantly relied on data that impose significant burdens on individual countries for collection. In this study, our aim is to improve health equity in resource-constrained countries by exploring the effectiveness of high-resolution satellite imagery as a nontraditional and readily accessible data source. By leveraging the wealth of publicly available and easily obtainable satellite imagery, we present a scalable satellite extraction framework based on Sentinel Hub, a cloud-based computing platform. Furthermore, we introduce DengueNet, an innovative architecture that combines Vision Transformer, Radiomics, and Long Short-term Memory to extract and integrate spatiotemporal features from satellite images. This enables dengue predictions on an epi-week basis. To evaluate the effectiveness of our proposed method, we conducted experiments on five municipalities in Colombia. We utilized a dataset comprising 780 high-resolution Sentinel-2 satellite images for training and evaluation. The performance of DengueNet was assessed using the mean absolute error (MAE) metric. Across the five municipalities, DengueNet achieved an average MAE of 43.92. Our findings strongly support the efficacy of satellite imagery as a valuable resource for dengue prediction, particularly in informing public health policies within countries where manually collected data is scarce and dengue virus prevalence is severe.
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spellingShingle DengueNet: Dengue Prediction using Spatiotemporal Satellite Imagery for Resource-Limited Countries
Kuo, Kuan-Ting
Moukheiber, Dana
Ordonez, Sebastian Cajas
Restrepo, David
Paddo, Atika Rahman
Chen, Tsung-Yu
Moukheiber, Lama
Moukheiber, Mira
Moukheiber, Sulaiman
Purkayastha, Saptarshi
Kuo, Po-Chih
Celi, Leo Anthony
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Dengue fever presents a substantial challenge in developing countries where sanitation infrastructure is inadequate. The absence of comprehensive healthcare systems exacerbates the severity of dengue infections, potentially leading to life-threatening circumstances. Rapid response to dengue outbreaks is also challenging due to limited information exchange and integration. While timely dengue outbreak forecasts have the potential to prevent such outbreaks, the majority of dengue prediction studies have predominantly relied on data that impose significant burdens on individual countries for collection. In this study, our aim is to improve health equity in resource-constrained countries by exploring the effectiveness of high-resolution satellite imagery as a nontraditional and readily accessible data source. By leveraging the wealth of publicly available and easily obtainable satellite imagery, we present a scalable satellite extraction framework based on Sentinel Hub, a cloud-based computing platform. Furthermore, we introduce DengueNet, an innovative architecture that combines Vision Transformer, Radiomics, and Long Short-term Memory to extract and integrate spatiotemporal features from satellite images. This enables dengue predictions on an epi-week basis. To evaluate the effectiveness of our proposed method, we conducted experiments on five municipalities in Colombia. We utilized a dataset comprising 780 high-resolution Sentinel-2 satellite images for training and evaluation. The performance of DengueNet was assessed using the mean absolute error (MAE) metric. Across the five municipalities, DengueNet achieved an average MAE of 43.92. Our findings strongly support the efficacy of satellite imagery as a valuable resource for dengue prediction, particularly in informing public health policies within countries where manually collected data is scarce and dengue virus prevalence is severe.
title DengueNet: Dengue Prediction using Spatiotemporal Satellite Imagery for Resource-Limited Countries
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11114