Discovering dynamic patterns from infectious disease data using dynamic mode decomposition

Background The development and application of quantitative methods to understand disease dynamics and plan interventions is becoming increasingly important in the push toward eradication of human infectious diseases, exemplified by the ongoing effort to stop the spread of poliomyelitis. Methods Dyna...

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Published in:International health 2015-03, Vol.7 (2), p.139-145
Main Authors: Proctor, Joshua L., Eckhoff, Philip A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Communicable Diseases - transmission
Disease Outbreaks
Health Resources
Humans
Influenza, Human - transmission
Measles - transmission
Nigeria
Original
Poliomyelitis - transmission
Population Surveillance - methods
United Kingdom
Vaccination
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Summary:Background The development and application of quantitative methods to understand disease dynamics and plan interventions is becoming increasingly important in the push toward eradication of human infectious diseases, exemplified by the ongoing effort to stop the spread of poliomyelitis. Methods Dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) is a recently developed method focused on discovering coherent spatial-temporal modes in high-dimensional data collected from complex systems with time dynamics. The algorithm has a number of advantages including a rigorous connection to the analysis of nonlinear systems, an equation-free architecture, and the ability to efficiently handle high-dimensional data. Results We demonstrate the method on three different infectious disease sets including Google Flu Trends data, pre-vaccination measles in the UK, and paralytic poliomyelitis wild type-1 cases in Nigeria. For each case, we describe the utility of the method for surveillance and resource allocation. Conclusions We demonstrate how DMD can aid in the analysis of spatial-temporal disease data. DMD is poised to be an effective and efficient computational analysis tool for the study of infectious disease.
ISSN:1876-3413
1876-3405
DOI:10.1093/inthealth/ihv009