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MICCAI
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Probabilistic Multi-Shape Representation Using an Isometric Log-Ratio Mapping
Abstract. Several sources of uncertainties in shape boundaries in medical images have motivated the use of probabilistic labeling approaches. Although it is well-known that the sam...
Neda Changizi, Ghassan Hamarneh
IRI
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Computation with imprecise probabilities
abstract An imprecise probability distribution is an instance of second-order uncertainty, that is, uncertainty about uncertainty, or uncertainty for short. Another instance is an ...
Lotfi A. Zadeh
BMCBI
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
pplacer: linear time maximum-likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic placement of sequences onto a fixed reference tree
Background: Likelihood-based phylogenetic inference is generally considered to be the most reliable classification method for unknown sequences. However, traditional likelihood-ba...
Frederick A. Matsen III, Robin B. Kodner, E. Virgi...
IOR
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Robust One-Period Option Hedging
The paper considers robust optimization to cope with uncertainty about the stock return process in one period option hedging problems. The robust approach relates portfolio choice ...
Frank Lutgens, Jos F. Sturm, Antoon Kolen
JMLR
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
Learning Probabilistic Models of Link Structure
Most real-world data is heterogeneous and richly interconnected. Examples include the Web, hypertext, bibliometric data and social networks. In contrast, most statistical learning...
Lise Getoor, Nir Friedman, Daphne Koller, Benjamin...