Towards the Detection and Visual Analysis of COVID-19 Infection Clusters

dc.contributor.authorAntweiler, Darioen_US
dc.contributor.authorSessler, Daviden_US
dc.contributor.authorGinzel, Sebastianen_US
dc.contributor.authorKohlhammer, Jörnen_US
dc.contributor.editorVrotsou, Katerina and Bernard, Jürgenen_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-12T11:22:15Z
dc.date.available2021-06-12T11:22:15Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractA major challenge for departments of public health (DPHs) in dealing with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is tracing contacts in exponentially growing SARS-CoV2 infection clusters. Prevention of further disease spread requires a comprehensive registration of the connections between individuals and clusters. Due to the high number of infections with unknown origin, the healthcare analysts need to identify connected cases and clusters through accumulated epidemiological knowledge and the metadata of the infections in their database. Here we contribute a visual analytics framework to identify, assess and visualize clusters in COVID-19 contact tracing networks. Additionally, we demonstrate how graph-based machine learning methods can be used to find missing links between infection clusters and thus support the mission to get a comprehensive view on infection events. This work was developed through close collaboration with DPHs in Germany. We argue how our systems supports the identification of clusters by public health experts and discuss ongoing developments and possible extensions.en_US
dc.description.sectionheadersTemporal Data and Clustering
dc.description.seriesinformationEuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA)
dc.identifier.doi10.2312/eurova.20211097
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-03868-150-2
dc.identifier.pages43-47
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.2312/eurova.20211097
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.2312/eurova20211097
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Associationen_US
dc.subjectHuman centered computing
dc.subjectVisual analytics
dc.subjectMathematics of computing
dc.subjectGraph theory
dc.subjectApplied computing
dc.subjectHealth care information systems
dc.titleTowards the Detection and Visual Analysis of COVID-19 Infection Clustersen_US
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