Visual Analysis of Social Robots in Twitter on China Agenda Setting

With the development and progress of intelligent algorithms, more and more social robots are used to interfere with the information transmission and direction of international public opinion. This paper takes the agenda of COVID-19 in Twitter as the breakthrough point, and through the methods of web crawler, Twitter robot detection, data processing and analysis, aims at the agenda setting of social robots for China issues, that is, to carry out data visualization analysis for the stigmatized China image. Through case analysis, concrete and operable countermeasures for building the international communication system of China image were provided. © 2022 IEEE.

Project transition to the digital Middle Ages via COVID-19 pattern

The analysis of current trends in the implementation of effective socio-economic solutions and their development under the influence of COVID-19 is made. The prospects of using innovative and telecommunication technologies, robotics, big data processing methods and knowledge management methods in the formation and management of global economic clusters were noted. The clustering of delivery robots under pandemic conditions by methods of machine learning was carried out. The peculiarities of COVID-19 assessment as the main formative factor influencing socio-economic decision-making on a global scale are disclosed. The necessity and possible consequences of adopting and implementing new decisions designed to minimize the negative effects of COVID-19 on Russian and global economies are discussed. It is noted that the design and development of innovations in the system of management and transfer of knowledge is an indispensable condition for the successful development of future socio-economic relations. On the basis of the obtained results conclusions are made about the background of the applied solutions, about the vector of their direction and makes it clear what should be paid special attention to when assessing the current situation in society and determine which solutions are most effective and how the social order should be transformed to successfully withstand the new challenges. © 2023 SPIE.

Optimizing Medical Healthcare Services Using Big Data Analytics

Big data is a very large size of datasets which come from many different sources and are in a wide variety of forms. Due to its enormous potential, big data has gained popularity in recent years. Big data enables us to investigate and reinvent numerous fields, including the healthcare industry, education, and others. Big data specifically in the healthcare sector comes from a variety of sources, including patient medical information, hospital records, findings from physical exams, and the outcomes of medical devices. Covid19 recently, one of the most neglected areas to concentrate on has come under scrutiny due to the pandemic: healthcare management. Patient duration of stay in a hospital is one crucial statistic to monitor and forecast if one wishes to increase the effectiveness of healthcare management in a hospital, even if there are many use cases for data science in healthcare management. At the time of admission, this metric aids hospitals in identifying patients who are at high Length of Stay namely LS risk (patients who will stay longer). Once identified, patients at high risk for LS can have their treatment plans improved to reduce LS and reduce the risk of infection in staff or visitors. Additionally, prior awareness of LS might help with planning logistics like room and bed allotment. The aim of the suggested system is to precisely anticipate the length of stay for each patient on an individual basis so that hospitals can use this knowledge for better functioning and resource allocation using data analytics. This would contribute to improving treatments and services. © 2023 IEEE.

An optimisation approach for determining the efficiency of vital medical devices in intensive care units with COVID-19 patients using Apriori algorithm

Improving the process of strategic management in hospitals preparation and equipping the intensive care units (ICUs) and the availability of medical devices plays an important role for knowing consumer behaviour and need. This cross-sectional study was performed in the ICU of Farhikhtegan Hospital, Tehran, Iran for a period of six months. During these months, ten medical devices have been used 5,497 times. These devices include: ventilator, oxygen cylinder, infusion pump, electrocardiography machine, vital signs monitor, oxygen flowmeter, wavy mattress, ultrasound sonography machine, ultrasound echocardiography machine, and dialysis machine. The Apriori algorithm showed that four devices: ventilator, oxygen cylinder, vital signs monitoring device, oxygen flowmeter are the most used ones by patients. These devices are positively correlated with each other and their confidence is over 80% and their support is 73%. For validating the results, we have used equivalence class clustering and bottom-up lattice traversal (ECLAT) algorithm in our dataset.

Mining association rules for classification using frequent generator itemsets in arules package

Mining frequent itemsets is an attractive research activity in data mining whose main aim is to provide useful relationships among data. Consequently, several open-source development platforms are continuously developed to facilitate the users' exploitation of new data mining tasks. Among these platforms, the R language is one of the most popular tools. In this paper, we propose an extension of arules package by adding the option of mining frequent generator itemsets. We discuss in detail how generators can be used for a classification task through an application example in relation with COVID-19.

A Comprehensive Survey on Pandemic Patient Monitoring System: Enabling Technologies, Opportunities, and Research Challenges.

Sporadic occurrences of transmissible diseases have severe and long-lasting effects on humankind throughout history. These outbreaks have molded the political, economic, and social aspects of human life. Pandemics have redefined some of the basic beliefs of modern healthcare, pushing researchers and scientists to develop innovative solutions to be better equipped for future emergencies. Numerous attempts have been made to fight Covid-19-like pandemics using technologies such as the Internet of Things, wireless body area network, blockchain, and machine learning. Since the disease is highly contagious, novel research in patients' health monitoring system is essential for the constant monitoring of pandemic patients with minimal or no human intervention. With the ongoing pandemic of SARS-CoV-2, popularly known as Covid-19, innovations for monitoring of patients' vitals and storing them securely have risen more than ever. Analyzing the stored patients' data can further assist healthcare workers in their decision-making process. In this paper, we surveyed the research works on remote monitoring of pandemic patients admitted in hospitals or quarantined at home. First, an overview of pandemic patient monitoring is given followed by a brief introduction of enabling technologies i.e. Internet of Things, blockchain, and machine learning to implement the system. The reviewed works have been classified into three categories; remote monitoring of pandemic patients using IoT, blockchain-based storage or sharing platforms for patients' data, and processing/analyzing the stored patients' data using machine learning for prognosis and diagnosis. We also identified several open research issues to set directions for future research.

Academic Framing of Computational Representations in the Virtual Classroom during Covid-19

Keywords: Agenda;Framing;Social representations;Expectations;Computer Introduction The development of research projects often requires the competition of computers, software and data analysis techniques, but the acceptance, appropriation and intensive use of them presents limitations in terms of utility and risk expectations [1]. Some explanatory models of human capital formation suggest that the formation of talent or intellectual capital in intangible assets of organizations is due to habitus [3]. [...]the predictive models of the social representations of these determinants have not been observed in the explanation of the relations with the intensive use of technologies, devices and electronic networks. [...]the objective of the present work was to establish the academic link relative to the social representations of computer computers, considering the dimensions of the organizational, educational and cognitive models. Methodology A documentary, retrospective and exploratory study was carried out with a selection of sources indexed to international repositories Table 1, considering the indexing period from 2019 to 2021, as well as the search by allusive keywords for negative (stigma, risk, rejection) and positive (utility, acceptance, appropriation) (Table 1) Content analysis and opinion matrices were used, considering the inclusion of findings, ratings and comparisons of coded data such as;-1 for negative dimensions (stigma, risk and rejection) and +1 for positive dimensions (utility, acceptance and appropriation) The qualitative data analysis package was used, considering equation (1) in which the contingency relations and the proportions of probabilities of taking risks in permissible thresholds of human capital formation stand out The contrast of the null hypotheses was made from the estimation of these parameters.

Machine Learning Algorithm for Trend Analysis in Short term Forecasting of COVID-19 using Lung X-ray Images

With the development of medical technology, the diagnosis of lung diseases relies more on the determination of medical images. With increasingly huge data, a powerful data processing model is urgently needed to provide favorable support for this field. The goal of this study is to develop a computer-assisted method to identify COVID-19 from X-ray pictures of the lungs at the very beginning of the disease. The architecture is implemented as a software system on a computer that can assist in the affordable and accurate early identification of cardiac illness. The performance of CNN architecture is best among all other classification algorithms to detect COVID-9 from Lung X-ray images. The datasets consist of COVID-19 established cases for 4 weeks which included the X-ray images of the chest. Then the distribution of the data was examined according to the statistical distribution. For this prediction, time series models are used for forecasting the pandemic situation. The performances of the methods were compared according to the MSE metric and it was seen that the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) achieved the optimal trend pattern.

Doc-Handler: Document Scanner, Manipulator, and Translator based on Image and Natural language processing

Physical documents may easily be converted into digital versions in the modern digital era by employing scanning software and the internet. The day when this activity needed printers and scanners is long gone. Nowadays, even our smartphones and cameras may be used to quickly convert paper documents into digital ones. This is especially useful in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, where the ability to share and access documents online is more important than ever. This study proposes an application for illiterate people to quickly translate scanned papers or photos into their native language and save them in a digital format. The Application makes use of image processing methods and has capabilities including PDF conversion, image colour adjustment, cropping, and Optical Character Recognition (OCR). A user-friendly application, developed using the Flutter Framework and programmed in Python and Dart, serves as the interface for the system. The proposed application is cross-platform and works with a variety of gadgets. This method intends to increase accessibility and productivity for illiterate people in the digital age by integrating image processing with language translation. © 2023 IEEE.

Remotely Controlled Real-Time Health Surveillance System of COVID-19 Patients

This work focuses on the development of a portable physiological monitoring framework that can continuously monitor the patient's heartbeat, oxygen levels, temperature, ECG measurement, blood pressure, and other fundamental patient's data. As a result of this, the workload and the chances of being infected by COVID-19 of the health workers will be reduced and an efficient patient monitoring system can be maintained. In this paper, an IoT based continuous monitoring system has been developed to monitor all COVID-19 patient conditions and store patient data in the cloud server using Wi-Fi Module-based remote communication. In this monitoring system, data stored on IoT platform can be accessed by an authorized individual and ailments can be examined by the doctors from a distance based on the values obtained. If a patient's physical condition deteriorates, the doctor will immediately receive the emergency alert notification. This model proposed in this research work would be extremely important in dealing with the Corona epidemic around the world. © 2022 IEEE.

Wavelet analysis of S&P 500, oil prices, and economic policy uncertainty

We collect a total of 1830 data from January 2020 to June 2022 and use R for data processing and wavelet analysis. Moreover, we analyze the interactions between the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian-Ukrainian war, crude oil price, the S&P 500 and economic policy uncertainty within a time-frequency frame work. As a result that the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian-Ukrainian war has the extraordinary effects on the three indexes and the effect of the Russian- Ukrainian war on the crude oil price and US stock price higher than on the US economic uncertainty. © COPYRIGHT SPIE.

Security and Privacy Challenges in Healthcare Minitrack Overview

Digitizing healthcare services can provide many new benefits and opportunities. However, it can also introduce new research challenges in terms of protecting the security and privacy of patient data and electronic health records. The global COVID-19 pandemic and the increasing security incidents and breaches put patient information at risk, and organizations are under pressure to enhance the credibility and reliability of the health facilities and databases they operate. This minitrack encourages research in emerging problems and opportunities for security and privacy in healthcare. It addresses new approaches and strategies to improve the capabilities for protecting healthcare information and reducing misinformation, especially surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. © 2023 IEEE Computer Society. All rights reserved.

Predictive model to determine the growth of mobile money transactions in Zambia using data mining techniques

Mobile money has been known to be a successful venture around the world especially so, for African countries due to the many limitations that traditional banks have like operations, expensive transaction costs and cumbersome process to open account to mention but a few. The presence of mobile money has not only allowed the unbanked population to have accounts but has also alleviated poverty for many rural communities. Zambia has seen an increase of mobile money accounts and COVID-19 has exacerbated this increase. Therefore, this paper sought to determine data mining algorithm best predicts mobile money transaction growth. This paper was quantitative in nature and used aggregated monthly mobile money data (from Zambian mobile network operators) from 2013 to 2020 as its sample which was collected from Bank of Zambia and Zambia Information Communications and Technology Authority. The paper further used WEKA data mining tool for data analysis following the Cross-Industrial Standard Process for data mining guidelines. The performance from best to least is K-nearest neighbour, random forest, support vector machines, multilayer perceptron and linear regression. The predictions from data mining techniques can be deployed to predict growth of mobile money and hence be used in financial inclusion policy formulation and other strategies that can further improve service delivery by mobile network operators.

Covid-19 Vaccine Management System based on Blockchain: A Survey

Early in 2020, the coronavirus Covid-19, which is produced by the SARS-CoV -2 strain, first gained international attention as a severe health threat. Covid-19 spread quickly around the world, forcing everyone to fight with preventative measures like masks, hand washing, and preserving social distance. But to prevent the virus, vaccination has been playing a key role. Vaccination records that contain patient data make this system very complicated because there is a risk of a privacy breach. Hackers may steal the personal health information of individuals or may carry out cyberattacks against any national health data server. Additionally, there is a chance that dishonest people can purchase and sell fake vaccine certificates on the black market. Blockchain can provide a solution to this regard by its features like data immutability, privacy, transparency and decentralization. For people, governments, and organizations interested in blockchain-based systems, we analyze the blockchain based vaccination management system in this study and provide a current summary. We envision our study to motivate more blockchain based systems. © 2022 IEEE.

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF ROBO MEDICAL ASSISTANT

The history of the medical robot is not very far from the first experiment in the 1980s. Nowadays robot in the medical sector plays a vital role in monitoring patient's health condition from distance. This paper aimed at developing an auxiliary medical solution that could provide a wide range of non-invasive diagnoses carried out by an automated robot whose motion can also be controlled manually using either a mobile application or voice command. The authors also incorporate modern features of video conferences and automated patient data management systems using the Internet of Things (IoT) which eventually facilitate medical practitioners in proper investigation from distance. The results of the clinical trial among 6 persons indicated that the robot could measure different health parameters properly using the proposed non-invasive method. The non-invasive results are verified by standard testing equipment and conventional clinical investigation and are also presented in this paper. The developed medical robot having a wide range of functionality could play a significant role in reducing human workload and ensuring timely medical assistance during a challenging crisis pandemic period like COVID-19. © 2023 IEEE.

Artificial Neural Network Dual Hesitant Fermatean Fuzzy Implementation in Transportation of COVID-19 Vaccine

This article, in order to address impreciseness, initiated the notion of dual hesitant fermatean fuzzy sets (DHFFSs), as a generalization of the combination of dual hesitant fuzzy set (DHFS), dual hesitant Pythagorean fuzzy set (DHPFS) and Fermatean fuzzy set (FFS). The authors defined the fundamental set of operations for DHFFS. Additionally, the authors have also proposed two ranking functions and an accuracy function for the ordering of this novel set. In order to facilitate the pragmatic implementation of DHFFS in optimization, the authors formulated three types of transportation problem with dual hesitant Fermatean fuzzy (DHFF) parameters. To optimize the DHFF-TP, an algorithm was proposed with the help of one of the proposed ranking functions. Artificial neural network is also applied to the transportation problems in DHFF environment. A numerical example based on the transportation of COVID-19 vaccine with DHFF cost has also been carried out to validate out to validate our technique.

Non-Contact Physiological Measurement System for Wearing Masks During the Epidemic

Physiological signals indicate a person's physical and mental state at any given time. Accordingly, many studies extract physiological signals from the human body with non-contact methods, and most of them require facial feature points. However, under COVID-19, wearing a mask has become a must in many places, so how non-contact physiological information measurements can still be performed correctly even when a mask covers the facial information has become a focus of research. In this study, RGB and thermal infrared cameras were used to execute non-contact physiological information measurement systems for heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate, and forehead temperature for people wearing masks due to the pandemic. Using the green (G) minus red (R) signal in the RGB image, the region of interest (ROI) is established in the forehead and nose bridge regions. The photoplethysmography (PPG) waveforms of the two regions are obtained after the acquired PPG signal is subjected to the optical flow method, baseline drift calibration, normalization, and bandpass filtering. The relevant parameters in Deep Neural Networks (DNN) for the regression model can correctly predict the heartbeat and blood pressure. In addition, the temperature change in the ROI of the mask after thermal image processing and filtering can be used to correctly determine the number of breaths. Meanwhile, the thermal image can be used to read the temperature average of the ROI of the forehead, and the forehead temperature can be obtained smoothly. The experimental results show that the above-mentioned physiological signals of a subject can be obtained in 6-s images with the error for both heart rate and blood pressure within 2%∼3% and the error of forehead temperature within ±0.5°C. © 2023 Tech Science Press. All rights reserved.

Simulation Analysis of Infectious Disease Trend Based on Improved SEIR Model

Scholars have carried out a lot of research in the field of using data processing methods to analyze the evolution characteristics and development trends of infectious diseases. The research on data model method is more in-depth, that is, according to the specific characteristics of infectious diseases, suitable data models are designed and combined with different parameters to analyze infectious diseases, mainly including infectious disease data models based on statistical theory or dynamic theory. The former is mostly used in the case of insufficient initial data. Local analysis is carried out by means of a priori or assumptions to achieve global prediction. The latter mainly includes SIR model, complex network model, and cellular automata model. SIR model is the most in-depth research. Scholars have constructed or optimized Si model, SIS model, SEIR model, IR model, and other derivative models based on SIR model in combination with the characteristics of viruses. In this paper, the data source is Wuhan epidemic information released by Health Commission of Hubei Province. Combined with the specific characteristics of COVID-19, the traditional dynamic propagation model is optimized, and an improved SEIR model is constructed. The results of the improved SEIR model are in good agreement with the actual epidemic trend in Wuhan. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

CNN approach for predicting survival outcome of patients with COVID-19

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been challenged specifically with the new variant. The number of patients seeking treatment has increased significantly, putting tremendous pressure on hospitals and healthcare systems. With the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to leverage clinicians to improve personalized medicine for COVID-19, we propose a deep learning model based on 1D and 3D convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to predict the survival outcome of COVID-19 patients. Our model consists of two CNN channels that operate with CT scans and the corresponding clinical variables. Specifically, each patient data set consists of CT images and the corresponding 44 clinical variables used in the 3D CNN and 1D CNN input, respectively. This model aims to combine imaging and clinical features to predict short-term from long-term survival. Our models demonstrate higher performance metrics compared to state-of-the-art models with AUC-ROC of 91.44 –91.60% versus 84.36 –88.10% and Accuracy of 83.39 –84.47% versus 79.06 –81.94% in predicting the survival groups of patients with COVID-19. Based on the findings, the combined clinical and imaging features in the deep CNN model can be used as a prognostic tool and help to distinguish censored and uncensored cases of COVID-19. IEEE

Process Modeling and Conformance Checking in Healthcare: A COVID-19 Case Study: Case Study

The discipline of process mining has a solid track record of successful applications to the healthcare domain. Within such research space, we conducted a case study related to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) ward of the Uniklinik Aachen hospital in Germany. The aim of this work is twofold: developing a normative model representing the clinical guidelines for the treatment of COVID-19 patients, and analyzing the adherence of the observed behavior (recorded in the information system of the hospital) to such guidelines. We show that, through conformance checking techniques, it is possible to analyze the care process for COVID-19 patients, highlighting the main deviations from the clinical guidelines. The results provide physicians with useful indications for improving the process and ensuring service quality and patient satisfaction. We share the resulting model as an open-source BPMN file. © 2023, The Author(s).