Development and comparison of predictive models for sexually transmitted diseases—Aids, gonorrhea, and syphilis in China, 2011–2021

Bibliographic Data

ID22076799
AuthorsZhixin Zhu (0009-0009-4395-5257, Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University), Xiaoxia Zhu (0000-0002-3580-1997, Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University), Yancen Zhan (Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University), Lanfang Gu (Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University), Liang Chen (0000-0003-1553-2846, Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University), Xiuyang Li (0000-0003-1460-9995, Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume10
Pages966813-966813
Publication date2022-08-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFrontiers in Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2296-2565 • E-ISSN: 2296-2565
PublisherFrontiers Media SA (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3389/fpubh.2022.966813
PMID36091532
OpenAlexW4291163695
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited42

Background: Accurate incidence prediction of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) is critical for early prevention and better government strategic planning. In this paper, four different forecasting models were presented to predict the incidence of AIDS, gonorrhea, and syphilis. Methods: The annual percentage changes in the incidence of AIDS, gonorrhea, and syphilis were estimated by using joinpoint regression. The performance of four methods, namely, the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model, Elman neural network (ERNN) model, ARIMA-ERNN hybrid model and long short-term memory (LSTM) model, were assessed and compared. For 1-year prediction, the collected data from 2011 to 2020 were used for modeling to predict the incidence in 2021. For 5-year prediction, the collected data from 2011 to 2016 were used for modeling to predict the incidence from 2017 to 2021. The performance was evaluated based on four indices: mean square error (MSE), mean absolute error (MAE), and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE). Results: for AIDS, gonorrhea and syphilis 5-year prediction, respectively. For 1-year prediction, the MAPEs of ARIMA, ERNN, ARIMA-ERNN, and LSTM for AIDS are 23.26, 20.24, 18.34, and 18.63, respectively; For gonorrhea, the MAPEs are 19.44, 18.03, 17.77, and 5.09, respectively; For syphilis, the MAPEs are 9.80, 9.55, 8.67, and 5.79, respectively. For 5-year prediction, the MAPEs of ARIMA, ERNN, ARIMA-ERNN, and LSTM for AIDS are 12.86, 23.54, 14.74, and 25.43, respectively; For gonorrhea, the MAPEs are 17.07, 17.95, 16.46, and 15.13, respectively; For syphilis, the MAPEs are 21.88, 24.00, 20.18 and 11.20, respectively. In general, the performance ranking of the four models from high to low is LSTM, ARIMA-ERNN, ERNN, and ARIMA. Conclusion: The time series predictive models show their powerful performance in forecasting STDs incidence and can be applied by relevant authorities in the prevention and control of STDs

Autoregressive integrated moving average · Gonorrhea · Mean absolute percentage error · Mean squared error · Statistics · Syphilis · Time series · COVID-19 epidemiological studies · Data-Driven Disease Surveillance · Demography · Mathematics · Medicine · Zoonotic diseases and public health · Virology