A Scoping Literature Review of Artificial Intelligence in Epidemiology: Uses, Applications, Challenges and Future Trends

Authors

  • Kamal Bakari Jillahi American University of Nigeria
  • Aamo Iorliam American University of Nigeria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.62411/jcta.10350

Keywords:

AI, Epidemiology, Infodemiology, Infoveillance, Machine Learning

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been applied to many human endeavors, and epidemiology is no exception. The AI community has recently seen a renewed interest in applying AI methods and approaches to epidemiological problems. However, a number of challenges are impeding the growth of the field. This work reviews the uses and applications of AI in epidemiology from 1994 to 2023. The following themes were uncovered: epidemic outbreak tracking and surveillance, Geo-location and visualization of epidemics data, Tele-Health, vaccine resistance and hesitancy sentiment analysis, diagnosis, predicting and monitoring recovery and mortality, and decision support systems. Disease detection received the most interest during the time under review. Furthermore, the following AI approaches were found to be used in epidemiology: prediction, geographic information systems (GIS), knowledge representation, analytics, sentiment analysis, contagion analysis, warning systems, and classification. Finally, the work makes the following findings: the absence of benchmark datasets for epidemiological purposes, the need to develop ethical guidelines to regulate the development of AI for epidemiology as this is a major issue impeding it’s growth, a concerted and continuous collaboration between AI and Epidemiology experts to grow the field, the need to develop explainable and privacy retaining AI methods for more secured and human understandable AI solutions.

Author Biographies

Kamal Bakari Jillahi, American University of Nigeria

School of Information Technology and Computing, American University of Nigeria, Yola, Nigeria

Aamo Iorliam, American University of Nigeria

School of Information Technology and Computing, American University of Nigeria, Yola, NigeriaScopus ID: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56426550900

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