How Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Can Help Better Manage the COVID-19 Pandemic

How Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Can Help Better Manage the COVID-19 Pandemic

Jianhong Wu, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Mariano Martini, Giovanni Damiani, Masoud Behzadifar, Haijiang Dai

SARS-CoV2 is a novel coronavirus, responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic declared by the World Health Organization. Thanks to the latest advancements in the field of molecular and computational techniques and information and communication technologies (ICTs), artificial intelligence (AI) and Big Data can help in handling the huge, unprecedented amount of data derived from public health surveillance, real-time epidemic outbreaks monitoring, trend now-casting/forecasting, regular situation briefing and updating from governmental institutions and organisms, and health facility utilization information. The present review is aimed at overviewing the potential applications of AI and Big Data in the global effort to manage the pandemic.

2020

Epidemiology, artificial intelligence, Public Health, big data, viral outbreak

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17093176

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

MDPI AG

Medicine