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BMCBI
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
A multifactorial analysis of obesity as CVD risk factor: Use of neural network based methods in a nutrigenetics context
Background: Obesity is a multifactorial trait, which comprises an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). The aim of the current work is to study the complex eti...
Ioannis K. Valavanis, Stavroula G. Mougiakakou, Ke...
BMCBI
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
UFFizi: a generic platform for ranking informative features
Background: Feature selection is an important pre-processing task in the analysis of complex data. Selecting an appropriate subset of features can improve classification or cluste...
Assaf Gottlieb, Roy Varshavsky, Michal Linial, Dav...
PAMI
2012
11 years 9 months ago
Learning Optimal Embedded Cascades
—The problem of automatic and optimal design of embedded object detector cascades is considered. Two main challenges are identified: optimization of the cascade configuration and...
Mohammad Javad Saberian, Nuno Vasconcelos
ICML
2007
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Information-theoretic metric learning
In this paper, we present an information-theoretic approach to learning a Mahalanobis distance function. We formulate the problem as that of minimizing the differential relative e...
Jason V. Davis, Brian Kulis, Prateek Jain, Suvrit ...
ICFHR
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Error Reduction by Confusing Characters Discrimination for Online Handwritten Japanese Character Recognition
To reduce the classification errors of online handwritten Japanese character recognition, we propose a method for confusing characters discrimination with little additional costs....
Xiang-Dong Zhou, Da-Han Wang, Masaki Nakagawa, Che...