Most of the Bayesian network-based classifiers are usually only able to handle discrete variables. However, most real-world domains involve continuous variables. A common practice to deal with continuous variables is to discretize them, with a subsequent loss of information. This work shows how discrete classifier induction algorithms can be adapted to the conditional Gaussian network paradigm ...

When modelling a probability distribution with a Bayesian network, we are faced with the problem of how to handle continuous variables. Most previous works have solved the problem by discretizing them with the consequent loss of information. Another common alternative assumes that the data are generated by a Gaussian distribution (parametric approach), such as conditional Gaussian networks, wit...

To prevent blindness from diabetic retinopathy, periodic screening and early diagnosis are neccessary. Due to lack of expert ophthalmologists in rural area, automated early exudate (one of visible sign of diabetic retinopathy) detection could help to reduce the number of blindness in diabetic patients. Traditional automatic exudate detection methods are based on specific parameter configuration...

Naive Bayes classifier is the simplest among Bayesian Network classifiers. It has shown to be very efficient on a variety of data classification problems. However, the strong assumption that all features are conditionally independent given the class is often violated on many real world applications. Therefore, improvement of the Naive Bayes classifier by alleviating the feature independence ass...

We propose a simple Bayesian network-based text classifier, which may be considered as a discriminative counterpart of the generative multinomial naive Bayes classifier. The method relies on the use of a fixed network topology with the arcs going form term nodes to class nodes, and also on a network parametrization based on noisy or gates. Comparative experiments of the proposed method with nai...

Text Classification is an important research field in information retrieval and text mining. The main task in text classification is to assign text documents in predefined categories based on documents’ contents and labeled-training samples. Since word detection is a difficult and time consuming task in Persian language, Bayesian text classifier is an appropriate approach to deal with different...

We propose to improve the accuracy of prediction market forecasts by using Bayesian networks to constrain probabilities among related questions. Prediction markets are already known to increase forecast accuracy compared to single best estimates. Our own flat prediction market substantially beat a baseline linear opinion pool during the first year. One way to improve performance is by expressin...

Different probabilistic models for classification and prediction problems are anlyzed in this article studying their behaviour and capability in data classification. To show the capability of Bayesian Networks to deal with classification problems four types of Bayesian Networks are introduced, a General Bayesian Network, the Naive Bayes, a Bayesian Network Augmented Naive Bayes and the Tree Aug...

In previous work [3] we presented 1BC, a first-order Bayesian classifier. 1BC applies dynamic propositionalisation, in the sense that attributes representing first-order features are generated exhaustively within a given feature bias, but during learning rather than as a pre-processing step. In this paper we describe 1BC2, which learns from structured data by fitting various parametric distribu...