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Srinivasan Venkatramanan¹, Adam Sadilek², Arindam Fadikar³

¹Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.

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Machine-learned anonymized mobility maps (AMM) from smartphones can forecast epidemics as effectively as traditional methods. This technology enables timely infectious disease forecasting and epidemiology at a global scale.

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Area of Science:

Epidemiology
Computational epidemiology
Mobility modeling

Background:

Human mobility is a key factor in infectious disease transmission.
Current mobility data for forecasting is often limited in availability, coverage, granularity, and timeliness.
Accurate, data-driven disease forecasts are essential for public health decision-making.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate the utility of machine-learned anonymized mobility maps (AMM) for epidemic forecasting.
To integrate AMM into a metapopulation model for retrospective influenza forecasting.
To compare AMM-based forecasting with existing mobility models and data sources.

Main Methods:

Utilized a machine-learned anonymized mobility map (AMM) aggregated from smartphone data.
Incorporated AMM into a metapopulation model.
Retrospectively forecasted influenza in the USA and Australia.
Compared AMM performance against commuter surveys, gravity models, and radiation models.

Main Results:

AMM-based models performed comparably to models using traditional commuter surveys.
The radiation model showed similar performance to AMM and commuter flows.
The model successfully predicted disease spread across state boundaries.
Demonstrated the potential for timely infectious disease forecasting using AMM.

Conclusions:

Machine-learned anonymized mobility maps are a viable and effective data source for epidemic forecasting.
AMM offers a scalable and timely alternative to traditional mobility data for epidemiological applications.
This approach advances the development of global-scale, data-driven infectious disease forecasting systems.