G. Wayoe

The Evolution of Spatiotemporal Hotspot Prediction in Public Health: Emerging Paradigms from Spatial Epidemiology to GeoAI and Foundation Models

Spatiotemporal hotspot prediction has become essential for proactive public health surveillance and intervention. Over several decades, analytical approaches in this field have evolved from classical spatial epidemiology through Bayesian modeling, machine learning, deep learning, GeoAI, and more recently, foundation mo...