Machine Learning Applications in Forecasting of COVID-19 Based on Patients' Individual Symptoms

ABSTRACT

Predicting the COVID-19 outbreak has been studied by many researchers in recent years. Many machine learning models have been used for the prediction of the transmission in a country or region, but few studies aim to predict whether an individual has been infected by COVID-19. However, due to the gravity of this global pandemic, prediction at an individual level is critical. The objective of this paper is to predict if an individual has COVID-19 based on the symptoms and features. The prediction results can help the government better allocate the medical resources during this pandemic. Data of this study was taken on June 18th from the Israeli Ministry of Health on COVID-19. The purpose of this study is to compare and analyze different models, which are Support Vector Machine (SVM), Logistic Regression (LR), Naive Bayesian (NB), Decision Tree (DT), Random Forest (RF) and Neural Network (NN). © 2021 ACM.