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  • Epidemiology
  • Environmental Science
  • Computational Biology

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  • Meteorological factors significantly impact infectious disease transmission.
  • Quantifying these environmental influences on disease dynamics remains a challenge.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a learning-explaining framework for discovering the dependence of disease transmission on meteorological factors.
  • To identify explicit formulas for incidence and transmission rates influenced by weather.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized deep neural networks (DNN), symbolic regression (SR), and sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy).
  • Employed an SIRS (Susceptible-Infected-Recovered-Susceptible) model to learn incidence rates from epidemic data.
  • Explored relationships between transmission rates and meteorological factors using mechanism discovery.

Main Results:

  • The study identified strong, nonlinear relationships between meteorological factors and disease transmission.
  • Derived explicit formulas for incidence and transmission rates of respiratory infectious diseases.
  • Case study on influenza-like illness (ILI) in Xi'an demonstrated the framework's efficacy.

Conclusions:

  • Meteorological factors exhibit highly nonlinear effects on infectious disease transmission.
  • Accurate modeling of these environmental influences requires careful consideration.
  • The developed framework provides a method for quantifying weather-disease transmission dynamics.