Advanced Neural AI Models for Early Outbreak Prediction and Surveillance of Infectious Diseases Using Large-Scale Epidemiological Data
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Advanced Neural AI Models for Early Outbreak Prediction and Surveillance of Infectious Diseases Using Large-Scale Epidemiological Data

1 School of Business, Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH 03106, United States
2 Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Mercy University, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522, United States
* Corresponding Author: Istiaq Ahmed, [email protected]
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Abstract

Infectious disease outbreaks pose significant challenges to public health infectious disease outbreaks create for the local population, the economy, and the world order. To be successful in early intervention and resource allocation, the prediction of such outbreaks should be as accurate as possible. This study describes the most successful approaches for epidemic prediction through the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI), which utilizes machine-learning and deep-learning models to assess various epidemiological, environmental, and socio-economic factors. Identification of urban patterns, prediction of the spread of diseases, and generation of actionable hypotheses might be performed by the integration of sophisticated computational models with real-time data streams. The topics we cover include some of the most influential methods, including neural networks, natural language processing for social media monitoring, and federated learning for secure and collaborative model training across different institutions. The research assesses current models in terms of their precision, capacity to scale, and capability to cope with new diseases. AI's potential as a tool for predicting future. epidemics and thus helping society to become ready to respond to them effectively, while addressing important issues like data privacy, bias, and interdisciplinary collaboration, is the main message of our study. This research reveals the significant role AI plays in the advancement of global health.

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Advanced Neural AI Models for Early Outbreak Prediction and Surveillance of Infectious Diseases Using Large-Scale Epidemiological Data

Keywords

outbreak prediction infectious diseases artificial intelligence machine learning public health

Data Availability Statement

Data will be made available on request.

Funding

This work was supported without any funding.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Ethical Approval and Consent to Participate

This study used de-identified, publicly available data, compliant with data protection regulations, requiring no ethical approval or informed consent.

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Ahmed, I., Islam, M. Z., & Khan, M. A. U. H. (2025). Advanced Neural AI Models for Early Outbreak Prediction and Surveillance of Infectious Diseases Using Large-Scale Epidemiological Data. ICCK Transactions on Neural Computing, 1(2), 87–97. https://doi.org/10.62762/TNC.2025.284791
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  title = {Advanced Neural AI Models for Early Outbreak Prediction and Surveillance of Infectious Diseases Using Large-Scale Epidemiological Data},
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  abstract = {Infectious disease outbreaks pose significant challenges to public health infectious disease outbreaks create for the local population, the economy, and the world order. To be successful in early intervention and resource allocation, the prediction of such outbreaks should be as accurate as possible. This study describes the most successful approaches for epidemic prediction through the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI), which utilizes machine-learning and deep-learning models to assess various epidemiological, environmental, and socio-economic factors. Identification of urban patterns, prediction of the spread of diseases, and generation of actionable hypotheses might be performed by the integration of sophisticated computational models with real-time data streams. The topics we cover include some of the most influential methods, including neural networks, natural language processing for social media monitoring, and federated learning for secure and collaborative model training across different institutions. The research assesses current models in terms of their precision, capacity to scale, and capability to cope with new diseases. AI's potential as a tool for predicting future. epidemics and thus helping society to become ready to respond to them effectively, while addressing important issues like data privacy, bias, and interdisciplinary collaboration, is the main message of our study. This research reveals the significant role AI plays in the advancement of global health.},
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