Prediction of hand, foot, and mouth disease epidemics in Japan using a long short-term memory approach

Kazuhiro Yoshida; Tsuguto Fujimoto; Masamichi Muramatsu; Hiroyuki Shimizu

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0271820

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Prediction of hand, foot, and mouth disease epidemics in Japan using a long short-term memory approach

Kazuhiro Yoshida ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: 6yoshida12@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8052-3420

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Tsuguto Fujimoto,

Roles Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Fungal Infection, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
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Masamichi Muramatsu,

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
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Hiroyuki Shimizu

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
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Prediction of hand, foot, and mouth disease epidemics in Japan using a long short-term memory approach

Kazuhiro Yoshida,
Tsuguto Fujimoto,
Masamichi Muramatsu,
Hiroyuki Shimizu

Published: July 28, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271820

About the Authors

Kazuhiro Yoshida

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: 6yoshida12@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8052-3420

Tsuguto Fujimoto

Roles Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Fungal Infection, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Masamichi Muramatsu

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroyuki Shimizu

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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