Mohamad Mohsin, Mohamad Farhan and Abu Bakar, Azuraliza and Hamdan, Abdul Razak and Sahani, Mazrura and Mohd Ali, Zainudin (2023) Dengue Outbreak Detection Model Using Artificial Immune System: A Malaysian Case Study. Journal of Information and Communication Technology, 22 (3). pp. 399-419. ISSN 2180-3862

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Abstract

Dengue is a virus that is spreading quickly and poses a severe threat in Malaysia. It is essential to have an accurate early detection system that can trigger prompt response, reducing deaths and morbidity. Nevertheless, uncertainties in the dengue outbreak dataset reduce the robustness of existing detection models, which require a training phase and thus fail to detect previously unseen outbreak patterns. Consequently, the model fails to detect newly discovered outbreak patterns. This outcome leads to inaccurate decision-making and delays in implementing prevention plans. Anomaly detection and other detection-based problems have already been widely implemented with some success using danger theory (DT), a variation of the artificial immune system and a nature-inspired computer technique. Therefore, this study employed DT to develop a novel outbreak detection model. A Malaysian dengue profile dataset was used for the experiment. The results revealed that the proposed DT model performed better than existing methods and significantly improved dengue outbreak detection. The findings demonstrated that the inclusion of a DT detection mechanism enhanced the dengue outbreak detection model’s accuracy. Even without a training phase, the proposed model consistently demonstrated high sensitivity, high specificity, high accuracy, and lower false alarm rate for distinguishing between outbreak and non-outbreak instances.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Aedes, artificial immune system, danger theory, dengue, outbreak
Subjects:	T Technology > T Technology (General)
Divisions:	School of Computing
Depositing User:	Mrs Nurin Jazlina Hamid
Date Deposited:	31 Jul 2023 09:58
Last Modified:	31 Jul 2023 09:58
URI:	https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/29667

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