An Introduction to Computational Intelligence in COVID-19: Surveillance, Prevention, Prediction, and Diagnosis

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been declared as pandemic which took the lives of more than 500 thousand people till mid of 2020 worldwide. Since the coronavirus is highly contagious in nature, COVID-19 is spreading rapidly despite observing social distancing and taking other recommended precautionary measures. Computational intelligence, a powerful tool that mimics human intelligence and learns specific tasks using data, is widely deployed to combat the COVID-19. This chapter briefly covers the computational intelligence methods and its applications in the surveillance, prevention, prediction, and diagnosis of COVID-19. Further, the limitation of current systems and prospects are also discussed.