Influenza Epidemic Trend Surveillance and Prediction Based on Search Engine Data: Deep Learning Model Study

Liuyang Yang   ^{1, 2 *} , DM ;   Ting Zhang   ^{2 *} , MD ;   Xuan Han   ^{2 *} , BS ;   Jiao Yang   ² , MM ;   Yanxia Sun   ² , PhD ;   Libing Ma   ^{2, 3} , MD ;   Jialong Chen   ⁴ , MM ;   Yanming Li   ⁴ , Prof Dr ;   Shengjie Lai   ⁵ , PhD ;   Wei Li   ⁶ , BS ;   Luzhao Feng   ² , MD ;   Weizhong Yang   ² , MM

¹ Department of Management Science and Information System, Faculty of Management and Economics, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China

² School of Population Medicine and Public Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

³ Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China

⁴ Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Bejing Hospital, Beijing, China

⁵ WorldPop, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

⁶ The First People’s Hospital of Yunnan Province, Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China

*these authors contributed equally