Implementation of SimpleRNN and LSTMs based prediction model for coronavirus disease (Covid-19)

Abstract

Deep learning is a powerful technique which is inspired by the structure as well as processing power of the human brain. This technique uses deep neural network to perform complex tasks such as time series prediction, image classification, and cancer detection. In this research work, we used Covid-19 time series datasets and with the help of deep learning we built the model for prediction of Covid-19 cases. For the model building, we used two deep learning neural networks, Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) and Long Short Term Memory Networks (LSTMs). We built a prediction model using RNN in the first instance and subsequently the second model was built using LSTMs. Out of these two neural networks, we got promising results from the model based on LSTMs with an overall accuracy of 98%. As the cases of Covid-19 are increasing day-by-day at a very high rate, we proposed these models using neural networks to help in predicting the future trends of Covid-19 confirmed, deaths and recovered cases.