{"title":"Classification of Breast Cancer Risk Factors Using Several Resampling Approaches","authors":"Md Faisal Kabir, Simone A. Ludwig","doi":"10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00202","url":null,"abstract":"Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide and the second most common cancer overall. Predicting the risk of breast cancer occurrence is an important challenge for clinical oncologists as it has direct influence in daily practice and clinical service. Classification is one of the supervised learning models that is applied in medical domains. Achieving better performance on real data that contains imbalance characteristics is a very challenging task. Machine learning researchers have been using various techniques to obtain higher accuracy, generally by correctly identifying majority class samples while ignoring the instances of the minority class. However, in most of the cases the concept of the minority class instances usually is of higher interest than the majority class. In this research, we applied three different classification techniques on a real world breast cancer risk factors data set. First, we applied specified classification techniques on breast cancer data without applying any resampling technique. Second, since the data is imbalanced meaning data has an unequal distribution between the classes, we applied several resampling methods to get better performance before applying the classifiers. The experimental results show significant improvement on using a resampling method as compared to applying no resampling technique, particularly for the minority class.","PeriodicalId":6533,"journal":{"name":"2018 17th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA)","volume":"8 1","pages":"1243-1248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88837153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sinkhorn Divergence of Topological Signature Estimates for Time Series Classification","authors":"C. Stephen","doi":"10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00113","url":null,"abstract":"Distinguishing between classes of time series sampled from dynamic systems is a common challenge in systems and control engineering, for example in the context of health monitoring, fault detection, and quality control. The challenge is increased when no underlying model of a system is known, measurement noise is present, and long signals need to be interpreted. In this paper we address these issues with a new non parametric classifier based on topological signatures. Our model learns classes as weighted kernel density estimates (KDEs) over persistent homology diagrams and predicts new trajectory labels using Sinkhorn divergences on the space of diagram KDEs to quantify proximity. We show that this approach accurately discriminates between states of chaotic systems that are close in parameter space, and its performance is robust to noise.","PeriodicalId":6533,"journal":{"name":"2018 17th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA)","volume":"532 1","pages":"714-721"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77062329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neural Fingerprint Enhancement","authors":"Edward Raff","doi":"10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00025","url":null,"abstract":"Biometrics fingerprint matching has been done with a heavily hand-tuned and designed process of classical computer vision techniques for several decades. This approach has lead to accurate solutions solving crimes today, and as such little effort has been placed on using deep learning in this domain. Given that convolutional neural networks have shown dominance for most other image based problems, we re-evaluate their potential for improving the fingerprint process. By leveraging synthetic data generators we show that one can train a neural fingerprint enhancer that improves matching accuracy on real fingerprint images. Our approach is both simple in design and for potential deployment and adoption in real world use.","PeriodicalId":6533,"journal":{"name":"2018 17th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA)","volume":"8 1","pages":"118-124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88449770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fei Wang, Jiangeng Li, Yiwei Wang, Weijie Bao, Z. Er, Xiaoyi Wang, Keyan Ren, Zhihai Wang
{"title":"Prediction of Ejection State for a Pneumatic Valve-Controlled Micro-Droplet Generator by a BP Neural Network","authors":"Fei Wang, Jiangeng Li, Yiwei Wang, Weijie Bao, Z. Er, Xiaoyi Wang, Keyan Ren, Zhihai Wang","doi":"10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00159","url":null,"abstract":"Pneumatic valve-controlled micro-droplet generation is a printing technique that has potential applications in many fields, especially in the field of biomedical printing. The droplet generation is controlled by a solenoid valve being briefly turned on, so that high pressure gas enters the liquid reservoir, forming a gas pressure pulse P(t), forcing the liquid out through a tiny nozzle to form a micro-droplet. Under the typical working conditions, P(t) is not consistent. Since P(t) is highly correlated with the micro-droplet ejection state, the inconsistency of P(t) results in fluctuation of ejection state. For each injection, the P(t) is acquired by a high speed pressure sensor, and the ejection state is obtained by machine vision processing. A machine learning method based on BP neural network is used to establish a prediction model with P(t) as the input and the droplet ejection state as the output. Experiments show that a BP neural network with only a single hidden layer and two neurons can accurately predict the number of droplets with an accuracy higher than 99%. Another experiment shows that a more complex double hidden layer BP neural network can improve the prediction accuracy for the position of droplets after a certain time delay. In summary, through pressure pulse P(t), the predictive model established by the machine learning method can effectively predict the micro-droplet ejection state. This technique may be used for real time monitoring and control of the pneumatic valve-controlled micro-droplet generator.","PeriodicalId":6533,"journal":{"name":"2018 17th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA)","volume":"18 3","pages":"977-982"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91489580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LiveFace: A Multi-task CNN for Fast Face-Authentication","authors":"Xiaowen Ying, Xin Li, M. Chuah","doi":"10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00155","url":null,"abstract":"Modern face recognition systems are accurate but they are vulnerable to different types of spoofing attacks. To solve this problem, conventional face authentication systems typically employ an additional module to analyze the liveness of the input faces before feeding it into the face recognition module. Such two-stage designs not only suffer from longer processing time but also require more storage and resources, which are usually limited on mobile and embedded platforms. In this paper, we propose a multi-task Convolutional Neural Network(CNN), namely LiveFace, for face-authentication. Given an input face image, LiveFace generates two outputs through a single stage: (i) a face representation that can be used for identification or verification, and (ii) the corresponding liveness score. The two tasks share lower layers to reduce the computation cost. Experimental results using three datasets show that our model achieves a comparable performance on both face recognition and anti-spoofing tasks but much faster than conventional authentication systems. In addition, we have implemented a prototype of our scheme on Android phones and demonstrated that our scheme can run in real-time on three Android devices that we have tested.","PeriodicalId":6533,"journal":{"name":"2018 17th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA)","volume":"42 1","pages":"955-960"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91498697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Training Generative Adversarial Networks with Bidirectional Backpropagation","authors":"Olaoluwa Adigun, B. Kosko","doi":"10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00190","url":null,"abstract":"Training generative adversarial networks with the new bidirectional backpropagation algorithm improved performance compared with ordinary unidirectional backpropagation. Bidirectional backpropagation trains a multilayer neural network in the backward direction as well as in the forward direction over the same weights and neurons. The result approximates a set-level inverse mapping that tends to improve the learning of the forward classification mapping. We compared bidirectional backpropagation training of the discriminator with unidirectional training for the standard vanilla GAN on MNIST data and a deep convolutional GAN on CIFAR-10 image data. We also compared B-BP and unidirectional training for a Wasserstein GAN on both MNIST and CIFAR-10 data. Bidirectional training substantially improved the inception score of the vanilla GAN's generated digit images for MNIST data. It increased the vanilla GAN's inception score by 22.3% and greatly reduced the GAN's incidence of mode collapse. Bidirectional training improved the inception score of the deep-convolutional GAN's generated samples by 3.3% on the CIFAR-10 data set. Bidirectional training also increased the Wasserstein GAN's inception score by 4.4% on the MNIST data and by 10.0% on the CIFAR-10 image data.","PeriodicalId":6533,"journal":{"name":"2018 17th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA)","volume":"10 1","pages":"1178-1185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91554932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Use Online Dictionary Learning to Get Parts-Based Decomposition of Noisy Data","authors":"Daming Lu","doi":"10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00243","url":null,"abstract":"A huge amount of data is generated every day. Extracting interpretable features from the data is becoming important. Meanwhile, dimension reduction and low-rank approximation are also becoming important as people want to factorize big matrix into smaller ones that are easy to handle. Sparse coding is such a technique that can factorize a matrix into sparse linear combinations of basis elements. We found that through Online Dictionary Learning, an efficient sparse coding method, we can decompose large data matrix with noise into interpretable dictionary atoms. Such atoms are useful in reconstructing a denoised data matrix.","PeriodicalId":6533,"journal":{"name":"2018 17th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA)","volume":"73 1","pages":"1492-1494"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90640774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deep Reinforcement Learning Monitor for Snapshot Recording","authors":"Giang Dao, Indrajeet Mishra, Minwoo Lee","doi":"10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00095","url":null,"abstract":"Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been leading to state-of-the-art performance to learn control policies for a wide range of applications. However, it does not provide an explanation of how a policy is learned and how the learned policy performs on a given task. In this paper, we answer to the inquiry: what scenes does a machine learning agent need to memorize for efficient learning and additional explanation regarding performance? Proposing a monitoring model to record the most important moments from experience-called snapshot images-we examine them for analysis. Sparse Bayesian Reinforcement Learning (SBRL) is known to remember sparse input samples during training and to construct bases for value function approximation. Also, SBRL has successfully maintained the snapshot memory for sparse input sampling. We apply our method to a visual maze problem and Atari games to observe the recorded snapshot images. Analyzing the images, we evaluate the efficacy of the proposed monitoring model and the quality of collected snapshots.","PeriodicalId":6533,"journal":{"name":"2018 17th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA)","volume":"14 1","pages":"591-598"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84761056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fine Object Detection in Automated Solar Panel Layout Generation","authors":"Shantanu Deshmukh, Teng-Sheng Moh","doi":"10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00228","url":null,"abstract":"A solar panel layout is a diagram of a roof, with the roof edges and obstacles marked. Currently, the user has to manually draw boundary over each obstacle in a tedious and meticulous manner. In this work, we have built a framework using the existing object detection models. We have leveraged the power of traditional edge detection algorithms, fusing with the cutting-edge machine learning based object detection frameworks. This fusion results in a framework capable of detecting objects to their exact edges. Thus, the boundary of each obstacle in a solar panel can be generated automatically with the edge pixel count variation of less than 25% compared to the ground truth.","PeriodicalId":6533,"journal":{"name":"2018 17th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA)","volume":"52 1","pages":"1402-1407"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82256744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dan Feng, P. Sequeira, Elín Carstensdóttir, M. S. El-Nasr, S. Marsella
{"title":"Learning Generative Models of Social Interactions with Humans-in-the-Loop","authors":"Dan Feng, P. Sequeira, Elín Carstensdóttir, M. S. El-Nasr, S. Marsella","doi":"10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00082","url":null,"abstract":"The development of agents that can engage in human social interaction has become critical in an increasingly wide range of applications. The focus of this work is modeling agents for social skills training where learners can interact with the autonomous characters in social scenarios and thereby acquire skills that can be applied in the real world. A key goal in the design of these systems is to allow users to explore various actions and tactics while still having the agents generate consistent and diverse responses. Providing the ability to explore different tactics raises a significant content challenge for the design of agents. To tackle the creative content creation problem, this paper introduces a humans-in-the-loop iterative process to automatically generate rich, varied content from a small amount of vignettes provided by online crowd workers. Specifically, this process uses the crowd to iteratively refine and improve an ensemble of generative models. The results show that the iterative, ensemble based approach generates more coherent and novel interactions than alternative non-ensemble, non-iterative approaches. The results presented in this paper can potentially provide the basis for flexible agent-based training systems.","PeriodicalId":6533,"journal":{"name":"2018 17th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA)","volume":"28 1","pages":"509-516"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81394693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}