Data Mining Approach to Analyze COVID-19 Clinical Dataset

Abstract

The new coronavirus has been spreading since the beginning of 2020 and many efforts have been made to develop vaccines to help patients recover. It is now clear that the world needs a rapid solution to curb the spread of COVID-19 worldwide with non-clinical approaches such as data mining, enhanced intelligence, and other artificial intelligence techniques. These approaches can be effective in reducing the burden on the health care system to provide the best possible way to diagnose and predict the COVID-19 epidemic. In this study, data mining models for early detection of Covid-19 in patients were developed using the epidemiological dataset of patients and individuals suspected of having Covid-19 in Iran. C4.5, support vector machine, Naive Bayes, logistic regression, Random Forest, and k-nearest neighbor algorithm were used directly on the dataset using Rapid miner to develop the models. By receiving clinical signs, this model diagnosis the risk of contracting the COVID-19 virus. Examination of the models in this study has shown that the support vector machine with 93.41% accuracy is more efficient in the diagnosis of patients with COVID-19 pandemic, which is the best model among other developed models. Keywords: COVID-19, Data mining, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Classification