Flusion: Integrating multiple data sources for accurate influenza predictions.

ABSTRACT: Over the last ten years, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has organized an annual influenza forecasting challenge with the motivation that accurate probabilistic forecasts could improve situational awareness and yield more effective public health actions. Starting with the 2021/22 influenza season, the forecasting targets for this challenge have been based on hospital admissions reported in the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) surveillance system. Reporting of influenza hospital admissions through NHSN began within the last few years, and as such only a limited amount of historical data are available for this target signal. To produce forecasts in the presence of limited data for the target surveillance system, we augmented these data with two signals

SUBMITTER: Ray EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12367328 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature