COVID-19

Scientists and engineers worldwide are battling the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are some examples of their work, including epidemiological analysis, diagnostics, and ventilator models.

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COVID-19 Research and Development with MATLAB and Simulink

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A novel methodology for epidemic risk assessment of COVID-19 outbreak

A. Pluchino et al, Nature: Scientific Reports, March 5 2021
paper

Impact of social media advertisements on the transmission dynamics of COVID-19 pandemic in India

Rajanish Kumar Rai et al, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing, February 27 2021
paper

Real-time tracking and prediction of COVID-19 infection using digital proxies of population mobility and mixing

Kathy Leung et al, Nature Communications, March 8 2021
paper

Toolbox to simulate and mitigate COVID-19 propagation

Zahrate El Oula Frihi et al, SoftwareX, June 2021
paper and GitHub MATLAB code repo

DON: Deep Learning and Optimization-Based Framework for Detection of Novel Coronavirus Disease Using X-ray Images

Gaurav Dhiman et al, Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences, February 15 2021
paper

Epidemiological Differences in the Impact of COVID-19 Vaccination in the United States and China

Monia Makhoul et al, Vaccines, March 5 2021
paper

Mathematical model of COVID-19 intervention scenarios for São Paulo—Brazil

Osmar Pinto Neto et al, Nature Communications, January 18 2021
paper and Zenodo code

An extended Weight Kernel Density Estimation model forecasts COVID-19 onset risk and identifies spatiotemporal variations of lockdown effects in China

Wenzhong Shi et al, Communications Biology, 2021
paper and Zenodo code

MSC-NTF (NurOwn^®) exosomes: a novel therapeutic modality in the mouse LPS-induced ARDS model

Haggai Kaspi et al, Stem Cell Research & Therapy, January 19 2021
paper

Forecasting of medical equipment demand and outbreak spreading based on deep long short‑term memory network: the COVID‑19 pandemic in Turkey

Erdinç Koç and Muammer Türkoğlu, Signal, Image and Video Processing, September 8 2020
paper

Global sensitivity analysis of COVID-19 mathematical model

Zizhen Zhang et al, Alexandria Engineering Journal, February 2021
paper

Densely connected convolutional networks-based COVID-19 screening model

Dilbag Singh et al, Applied Intelligence, February 7 2021
paper

Retinal findings in patients with COVID-19: Results from the SERPICO-19 study

Alessandro Invernizzi et al, The Lancet, September 20 2020
paper with ARIA - retinal vessel analysis MATLAB code

Study of the operation of taxi cars in an emergency situation

Dimitar Grozev et al, IOPScience, September 2020
paper

Modeling Social Distancing Strategies to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Spread in Israel: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Amir Shlomai et al, Value in Health, December 9 2020
paper

A new SEAIRD pandemic prediction model with clinical and epidemiological data analysis on COVID-19 outbreak

Xian-Xian Liu et al, Applied Intelligence, January 1 2021
paper

Fast detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA via the integration of plasmonic thermocycling and fluorescence detection in a portable device

Jiyong Cheong et al, Nature Biomedical Engineering, December 3 2020
paper

In-host Mathematical Modelling of COVID-19 in Humans

Esteban A. Hernandez-Vargas and Jorge X. Velasco-Hernandez, Annual Reviews in Control, September 30 2020
paper

Immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 in three children of parents with symptomatic COVID-19

Shidan Tosif et al, Nature Communications, November 11 2020
paper

Testing sewage to home in on Covid-19

Scott Murray, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, October 28, 2020
article, paper with MATLAB code

The geography of COVID-19 spread in Italy and implications for the relaxation of confinement measures

Enrico Bertuzzo et al, Nature, August 26 2020
paper

Cerebral Micro-Structural Changes in COVID-19 Patients – An MRI-based 3-month Follow-up Study

Yiping Lu et al, The Lancet, August 3 2020
paper

COVID-19 SimBiology SEIR Model Examples

Fulden Buyukozturk, MATLAB File Exchange, May 29 2020

COVID-19-Data-Generation-Visualization

Ma Luo, File Exchange, February 18 2021
data

Optimal Control of Mathematical modeling of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic with highlighting the negative impact of quarantine on diabetics people with Cost-effectiveness

Abdelfatah Kouidere et al, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, April 2021
paper

Dynamics of COVID-19 transmission with comorbidity: a data driven modelling based approach

Parthasakha Das et al, Nonlinear Dyn, March 8 2021
paper

Modelling uncertainty in the relative risk of exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus by airborne aerosol transmission in well mixed indoor air

Benjamin Jones et al, Building and Environment, March 15 2021
paper

Covid-19 transmission modelling of students returning home from university

Paul R. Harper et al, Health Systems, January 17 2021
paper and GitHub repo

COVID-19 intervention models: An initial aggressive treatment strategy for controlling the infection

Bismark Oduro and Vusi Mpendulo Magagula, Infect Dis Model, January 23 2021
paper

Controlling COVID-19 Outbreaks with Financial Incentives

Chaeyoung Lee et al, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, January 15 2021
paper

The optimal lockdown intensity for COVID-19

Jonathan P. Caulkins et al, Journal of Mathematical Economics, February 3 2021
paper

A novel Covid-19 and pneumonia classification method based on F-transform

Turker Tuncer et al, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, March 15 2021
paper

Electricity demand during pandemic times: The case of the COVID-19 in Spain

I. Santiago et al, Energy Policy, January 2021
paper

Optimal COVID-19 quarantine and testing strategies

Chad R. Wells et al, Nature Communications, 2021
paper

Management strategies in a SEIR-type model of COVID 19 community spread

Anca Rǎdulescu et al, Nature: Scientific Reports, December 4 2020
paper

The math behind epidemics

Alison Hill, Physics Today, November 1 2020
paper, MATLAB code

Variation of quantified infection rates of mixed samples to enhance rapid testing during an epidemic

Usama Kadri, Health Systems, September 13 2020
paper

Development of the Intelligent Pneumatic Sewing Platform for Mask Production

Hao-Ting Lin, IEEExplore, July 28 2020
paper

Avoiding COVID-19: Aerosol Guidelines

Matthew Evans, medRxiv, June 5 2020
paper preprint

Multiscale 3-dimensional pathology findings of COVID-19 diseased lung using high-resolution cleared tissue microscopy

Guang Li et al, bioRxiv, April 20, 2020
paper preprint

Second Version of a COVID-19 Simulator

Cleve Moler, Cleve's Corner, March 29, 2020
blog post and MATLAB code and app

How to determine when COVID-19 pool testing will be most effective

Behind the Headlines, mathworks.com, August 6 2020
blog post

Mathematical analysis on the dynamics of COVID-19 in India using SIR Epidemic Model

Zargar and Khanday, Mapana Journal of Sciences, August 6 2020
paper

COVID-19 Spread Predictor

Ahmed Abel-Gawad, MATLAB File Exchange, July 18th
MATLAB code

Infection, inflammation and intervention: mechanistic modelling of epithelial cells in COVID-19

Nabil T. Fadai et al, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, February 17 2021
paper

Cost and social distancing dynamics in a mathematical model of COVID-19 with application to Ontario, Canada

I. R. Moyles et al, Royal Society Open Science, February 24 2021
paper

Quantifying compliance with COVID-19 mitigation policies in the US: A mathematical modeling study

Nao Yamamoto et al, Infect Dis Model, March 4 2021
paper

A study on the effects of containment policies and vaccination on the spread of SARS-CoV-2

Vahid S. Bokharaie, PLOS ONE, March 4 2021
paper

Seismic evidence of the COVID-19 lockdown measures: a case study from eastern Sicily (Italy)

Andrea Cannata et al, EGU: Solid Earth, February 2 2021
paper

Mathematical modeling and a month ahead forecast of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: an Indian scenario

Suhail Ganiny and Owais Nisar, Model Earth Sys Environ, January 12 2021
paper

A Model for the Spread of Infectious Diseases with Application to COVID-19

Ricardo A. G. Unglaub and Kathrin Spendier, Challenges, February 5 2021
paper

Principal Component Analysis Applications in COVID-19 Genome Sequence Studies

Bo Wang and Lin Jiang, Cognitive Computation, January 13 2021
paper

Comparative cost-effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 testing strategies in the USA: a modelling study

Zhanwei Du et al, The Lancet: Public Health, February 4 2021
paper

Tracking COVID-19 using online search

Vasileios Lampos et al, NPJ Digital Medicine, February 8 2021
paper

Rapid SARS-CoV-2 Detection and Classification Using Phase Imaging with Computational Specificity

Neha Goswami et al, bioRxiv, December 12 2020
paper preprint

The effect of weather data on the spread of COVID-19 in Jordan

Eman Abdelhafez et al, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, January 9 2021
paper

Design of 3D-printable nasopharyngeal swabs in MATLAB for COVID-19 testing

Yilun Sun et al, Transactions on Additive Manufacturing Meets Medicine, September 9 2020
paper

Automated subject-specific mask design and tissue loading evaluation framework using GIBBON

Kevin Moerman, Twitter, April 2020
post and MATLAB code

Classification of Covid-19 Coronavirus, Pneumonia and Healthy Lungs in CT Scans Using Q-Deformed Entropy and Deep Learning Features

Ali Hasan et al, Entropy, April 2020
paper

A quantitative and qualitative analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic model

Sarbaz Khoshnaw et al, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, September 2020
paper

First-wave COVID-19 transmissability and severity in China outside Hubei after control measures, and second-wave scenario planning: a modelling impact assessment

Kathy Leung et al, The Lancet, April 8, 2020
paper

A COVID-19 Epidemiological Model for Community and Policy Maker Use

Alex De Visscher, Concordia University, arXiv, March 19, 2020
paper preprint with model code

Influence of wind and relative humidity on the social distancing effectiveness to prevent COVID-19 airborne transmission: A numerical study

Yu Feng et al, Journal of Aerosol Science, September 2020
paper

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Ventilator Research and Development Resources

These MATLAB and Simulink examples and research papers were used to help with the ventilator shortage. Some are foundational references.

An Intensive Push to Make Ventilators for the
COVID-19 Pandemic

Cambridge Consultants, UK

A review of open source ventilators for COVID-19 and future pandemics

Joshua M. Pearce, F1000Research, March 30 2020
paper and MATLAB code for the OxyGEN project

La Inteligencia Artificial y el Machine Learning en los Respiradores Contra el Coronavirus [Spanish]

Ignacio Ozcariz, El Radar de la Georealidad, 6 April 2020
article

COVID-19 Emergency Ventilator

Imperial College London
design, JamVent evaluation of performance

A Simulated Single Ventilator / Dual Patient Ventilation Strategy for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome during COVID-19 pandemic

Jose A. Solis-Lemus et al, medRxiv, April 7, 2020
paper preprint

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