APPLYING TIME SERIES MODELS TO PREDICT THE RATE OF INFLUENZA IN SEVERAL NORTHERN VIETNAM PROVINCES

Abstract

Many provinces in the center of the Red River Delta in North Vietnam are heavily affected by infectious diseases. In recent times, many scientists have studied and applied time series models to predict the rate and number of infectious diseases, thus helping healthcare organizations to prevent the spread of deadly outbreaks such as dengue, diarrhea, and influenza. This paper investigates and applies three deep learning models, CNN, RNN, and LSTM, in order to compare with two traditional machine learning models Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Linear Regression (LR). Experimental results open up several interesting research directions.