This paper presents a new solution for choosing the K parameter in the k-nearest neighbor (KNN) algorithm, the solution depending on the idea of ensemble learning, in which a weak KNN classifier is used each time with a different K, starting from one to the square root of the size of the training set. The results of the weak classifiers are combined using the weighted sum rule. The proposed sol...

DEFINITION Given a set of n points and a query point, q, the nearest-neighbor problem is concerned with finding the point closest to the query point. Figure 1 shows an example of the nearest neighbor problem. On the left side is a set of n = 10 points in a two-dimensional space with a query point, q. The right shows the problem solution, s. Figure 1: An example of a nearest-neighbor problem dom...

ÐWe consider a popular approach to multicategory classification tasks: a two-stage system based on a first (global) classifier with rejection followed by a (local) nearest-neighbor classifier. Patterns which are not rejected by the first classifier are classified according to its output. Rejected patterns are passed to the nearest-neighbor classifier together with the top-h ranking classes retu...

To improve the accuracy of data classification systems, several techniques using classifier fusion have been suggested. This paper proposed a model of classifier fusion for character recognition problem. The work presented here aims to tackle the disadvantages and benefit of different classifiers with varying feature sets. In particular, this approach proposes the use of statistical procedures ...

Prostate segmentation is essential for calculating prostate volume, creating patient-specific prostate anatomical models and image fusion. Automatic segmentation methods are preferable because manual segmentation is timeconsuming and highly subjective. Most of the currently available segmentation methods use a priori knowledge of the prostate shape. However, there is a large variation in prosta...

Combining Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) with endoscopy, it is expected that noninvasive, rapid detection of colorectal cancer can be performed in vivo in the future. In this study, Fourier transform infrared spectra were collected from 88 endoscopic biopsy colorectal tissue samples (41 colitis and 47 cancers). A new method, viz., entropy weight local-hyperplane k-nearest-neighb...

Classification of spatial data has become important due to the fact that there are huge volumes of spatial data now available holding a wealth of valuable information. In this paper we consider the classification of spatial data streams, where the training dataset changes often. New training data arrive continuously and are added to the training set. For these types of data streams, building a ...

Learning data representations is a fundamental challenge in modeling neural processes and plays an important role in applications such as object recognition. Optimal component analysis (OCA) formulates the problem in the framework of optimization on a Grassmann manifold and a stochastic gradient method is used to estimate the optimal basis. OCA has been successfully applied to image classificat...