This paper describes an improved boosting algorithm, named RegionBoost, and its application in developing a fast and robust invariant Local Binary Pattern histogram based face recognition system. We propose to use a multi-classifier where each classifier, an AdaBoost of feed-forward back-propagation network, is trained using a single Sub-Window of the whole image, the classifiers are finally co...

Given the relatively small number of microarrays typically used in gene-expression-based classification, all of the data must be used to train a classifier and therefore the same training data is used for error estimation. The key issue regarding the quality of an error estimator in the context of small samples is its accuracy, and this is most directly analyzed via the deviation distribution o...

Gene expression studies bridge the gap between DNA information and trait information by dissecting biochemical pathways into intermediate components between genotype and phenotype. These studies open new avenues for identifying complex disease genes and biomarkers for disease diagnosis and for assessing drug efficacy and toxicity. However, the majority of analytical methods applied to gene expr...

In this paper a feature selection algorithm CSSFFS (Constrained search sequential floating forward search) based on SVM is proposed for detecting breast cancer. It is a greedy algorithm with search strategy of constrained search. The aim of this algorithm is to achieve a feature subset with minimal BER (Balanced error rate). This is a hybrid algorithm with the combination of filters and wrapper...

This paper describes the application of cellular automata (CA) to various image processing tasks such as denoising and feature detection. Whereas our previous work mainly dealt with binary images, the current work operates on intensity images. The increased number of cell states (i.e. pixel intensities) leads to a vast increase in the number of possible rules. Therefore, a reduced intensity rep...

Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) data validation is usually performed by comparing postmortem (ex-vivo) IVUS data and corresponding histological analysis of the tissue, obtaining a reliable ground truth. The main drawback of this method is the few amount of available training dataset. In this work we propose a method to include examples from in-vivo labeled plaque to the ex-vivo training dataset...

This paper investigates the classification of different emotional states using speech features from different feature groups. We use both suprasegmental feature groups like pitch, energy, and duration and segmental feature groups like voice quality, zero crossing rate, and articulation. We want to exploit the selection of the most relevant features from these different feature groups to get a b...

Recently, the problem of signal representation in terms of basis vectors from a large, ”overcomplete”, spanning dictionary has been the focus of much research. Achieving a succinct, or ”sparse”, representation is known as the problem of best basis representation. We consider methods which seek to solve this problem by sequentially building up a basis set for the signal. Three distinct algorithm...

Wind power prediction (WPP) of wind farm clusters is important to the safe operation and economic dispatch system, but it faces two challenges: (1) The dimensions input parameters for WPP are very high so that contain irrelevant or redundant features; (2) difficult build a holistic model with high-dimensional clusters. To overcome these challenges, novel short-term clusters, based on sequential...