Hybrid of K-means and partitioning around medoids for predicting COVID-19 cases: Iraq case study

Abstract

COVID-19 was discovered near the end of 2019 in Wuhan, China. In a short period, the virus had spread throughout the entire world. One of the primary concerns of managers and decision-makers in all types of hospitals nowadays is to implement detection plans for status of patient (Negative, Positive) in order to provide enough care at the proper moment. To reduce a pandemic of COVID-19, improving health care quality could be advantageous. Making clusters of patients with similar features and symptoms supplies an overview of health quality given to similar patients. In the scope of medical machine learning, the K-means and Partitioning Around Medoids (PAM) clustering algorithms are usually used to produce clusters depend on similarity and to detect helpful patterns from sizes of data. In this paper, we proposed a hybrid algorithm of K-Means and Partitioning Around Medoids (PAM) called K-MP to take benefits of both PAM and K-Means to construct an efficient model for predicting patient status. The suggested model for the real dataset was collected from 400 patients in the many Iraqi clinics using a questionnaire. We evaluated the proposed K-MP by using true negative rate, balance accuracy, precision, accuracy, recall, mean absolute error, F1 score, and root mean square error. From these performance measures, we found that K-MP is more efficient in discovering patient status comparing to K-Means and PAM.