2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Paper IDSS-4.5
Paper Title CONTACT TRACING ENHANCES THE EFFICIENCY OF COVID-19 GROUP TESTING
Authors Ritesh Goenka, IIT Bombay, India; Shu-Jie Cao, ShanghaiTech University, China; Chau-Wai Wong, North Carolina State University, United States; Ajit Rajwade, IIT Bombay, India; Dror Baron, North Carolina State University, United States
SessionSS-4: Data Science Methods for COVID-19
LocationGather.Town
Session Time:Tuesday, 08 June, 16:30 - 17:15
Presentation Time:Tuesday, 08 June, 16:30 - 17:15
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Topic Special Sessions: Data Science Methods for COVID-19
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Abstract Group testing can save testing resources in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In group testing, we are given n samples, one per individual, and arrange them into m < n pooled samples, where each pool is obtained by mixing a subset of the n individual samples. Infected individuals are then identified using a group testing algorithm. In this paper, we use side information (SI) collected from contact tracing (CT) within nonadaptive/single-stage group testing algorithms. We generate data by incorporating CT SI and characteristics of disease spread between individuals. These data are fed into two signal and measurement models for group testing, where numerical results show that our algorithms provide improved sensitivity and specificity. While Nikolopoulos et al. utilized family structure to improve nonadaptive group testing, ours is the first work to explore and demonstrate how CT SI can further improve group testing performance.