ISLAMABAD, Nov 03 (APP):Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) powered forecasting tool which will predict influenza outbreaks very easily. By incorporating location data, the AI system is able to outperform other state-of-the-art forecasting methods, delivering up to an 11 per cent increase in accuracy and predicting influenza outbreaks up to 15 weeks in advance. “Past forecasting tools have sought to spot patterns by studying the way infection rates change over time but we used a graph neural network to encode flu infections as interconnected regional clusters,” said study author Yue Ning from Stevens Institute of Technology in the US. It allows their algorithm to tease out patterns in the way influenza infections flow from one region to another, and also to use patterns spotted in one region to inform its predictions in other locations, Medical Daily reported . “Capturing the interplay of space and time lets our mechanism identify hidden patterns and predict influenza outbreaks more accurately than ever before,” said Ning. “By enabling better resource allocation and public health planning, this tool will have a big impact on how we cope with influenza outbreaks,” Ning added. The research team trained their AI tool using real-world state and … Continue reading Artificial Intelligence tool provides more accurate flu forecasts: Study