International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 175 - Number 17 |
Year of Publication: 2020 |
Authors: Leslie Chandrakantha |
10.5120/ijca2020920685 |
Leslie Chandrakantha . Risk Prediction Model for Dengue Transmission using Artificial Neural Networks. International Journal of Computer Applications. 175, 17 ( Sep 2020), 37-41. DOI=10.5120/ijca2020920685
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne viral disease that has grown dramatically around the world in recent years. It is more prevalent in tropical and subtropical countries. Annually, an estimated 390 million infections occur worldwide. Several studies have shown that climate factors influence this disease. Furthermore, it was shown that the influence of climate factors on dengue incidences was expected to be visible after some lag period. Identifying the climate factors that influence the spread of dengue fever would be helpful in combatting growth of the disease. This study builds an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model for predicting the risk status of dengue incidences based on climate factors. The climate factors, average temperature, rainfall, and average relative humidity with a time lag are used as input parameters to the ANN. The monthly dengue incidences and the data on climate factors from the city of Colombo in Sri Lanka are used for this study. The accuracy of the ANN model prediction is found to be 90%.