An Automated Analysis Framework for Epidemiological Survey on COVID-19

For a long time, the prevention and control of COVID-19 has received significant attention. A crucial aspect of controlling the disease's spread is the epidemiological survey of patients and the subsequent analysis of epidemiological survey reports (case reports). However, current mainstream analysis approaches are all made manually. This manual method is time-consuming and manpower-intensive. This paper designs an automated visual epidemiological survey analysis (AVESA) framework for the epidemiological survey on COVID-19. AVESA designs a deep neural network for information extraction from case reports and automatically constructs an epidemiological knowledge graph based on predefined pattern. Moreover, a multi-dimensional knowledge reasoning model is developed for conducting knowledge reasoning in the complete COVID-19 epidemiological knowledge graph. In the entity extraction sub-task and multi-task extraction sub-task, AVESA achieved F1 scores of 85.12% and 92.29% respectively on the constructed dataset, significantly outperforming the standalone information extraction models. In full-graph computing, all three experiments align closely with manual analysis standards. In the risk analysis experiment, the weighted PageRank algorithm showed an average improvement of 11.21% in Top_Recall_n% over the standard PageRank algorithm. In the community detection experiment, the weighted Louvain algorithm showed a mere 4.34% community difference rate compared to manual analysis.