TraceAll: A Real-Time Processing for Contact Tracing Using Indoor Trajectories

The rapid spread of infectious diseases is a major public health problem. Recent developments in fighting these diseases have heightened the need for a contact tracing process. Contact tracing can be considered an ideal method for controlling the transmission of infectious diseases. The result of th...

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Published in:Information (Basel) 2021-05, Vol.12 (5), p.202
Main Authors: Alarabi, Louai, Basalamah, Saleh, Hendawi, Abdeltawab, Abdalla, Mohammed
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Blockchain
Contact potentials
Contact tracing
Control methods
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID19
decision support systems
Deep learning
Disease transmission
Ebola virus
Exposure
Infections
Infectious diseases
Legal ethics
Patients
Public health
Queries
query processing
spatial analysis
spatial computing
Teaching methods
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Summary:The rapid spread of infectious diseases is a major public health problem. Recent developments in fighting these diseases have heightened the need for a contact tracing process. Contact tracing can be considered an ideal method for controlling the transmission of infectious diseases. The result of the contact tracing process is performing diagnostic tests, treating for suspected cases or self-isolation, and then treating for infected persons; this eventually results in limiting the spread of diseases. This paper proposes a technique named TraceAll that traces all contacts exposed to the infected patient and produces a list of these contacts to be considered potentially infected patients. Initially, it considers the infected patient as the querying user and starts to fetch the contacts exposed to him. Secondly, it obtains all the trajectories that belong to the objects moved nearby the querying user. Next, it investigates these trajectories by considering the social distance and exposure period to identify if these objects have become infected or not. The experimental evaluation of the proposed technique with real data sets illustrates the effectiveness of this solution. Comparative analysis experiments confirm that TraceAll outperforms baseline methods by 40% regarding the efficiency of answering contact tracing queries.
ISSN:2078-2489
2078-2489
DOI:10.3390/info12050202