Time series forecasting of Covid-19 using deep learning models: India-USA comparative case study

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Highlights

  • Deep Learning based time series forecasting and comparative case study of Covid-19 confirmed and death cases in India and USA.

  • Recurrent neural network (RNN) based variants of long short term memory (LSTM) are being used to design proposed models.

  • Convolutional LSTM based model outperform other models with high accuracy and very less error.

  • One of the unique studies providing state-of-the-art results to help both countries to recede Covid-19 impact.

Abstract

Covid-19 is a highly contagious virus which almost freezes the world along with its economy. Its ability of human-to-human and surface-to-human transmission turns the world into catastrophic phase. In this study, our aim is to predict the future conditions of novel Coronavirus to recede its impact. We have proposed deep learning based comparative analysis of Covid-19 cases in India and USA. The datasets of confirmed and death cases of Covid-19 are taken into consideration. The recurrent neural network (RNN) based variants of long short term memory (LSTM) such as Stacked LSTM, Bi-directional LSTM and Convolutional LSTM are used to design the proposed methodology and forecast the Covid-19 cases for one month ahead. Convolution LSTM outperformed the other two models and predicts the Covid-19 cases with high accuracy and very less error for all four datasets of both countries. Upward/downward trend of forecasted Covid-19 cases are also visualized graphically, which would be helpful for researchers and policy makers to mitigate the mortality and morbidity rate by streaming the Covid-19 into right direction.

Keywords

Recurrent neural networks
Time series
Covid-19
LSTM
Forecasting
Deep learning

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