An algorithm based on support vector machines (SVM), the most recent advance in pattern recognition, is presented for use in classifying light-induced autofluorescence collected from cancerous and normal tissues. The in vivo autofluorescence spectra used for development and evaluation of SVM diagnostic algorithms were measured from 85 nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) lesions and 131 normal tissue...

We propose a simple yet efficient feature-selection method — based on principle component analysis (PCA) — for SVM-based classifiers. The idea is to select features whose corresponding axes are closest to the principle components computed from a data distribution by PCA. Experimental results show that our proposed method reduces dimensionality similar to PCA, but maintains the original measurem...

Discrimination of genetically modified organisms is increasingly demanded by legislation and consumers worldwide. The feasibility of a non-destructive discrimination of glyphosate-resistant and conventional soybean seeds and their hybrid descendants was examined by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy system combined with chemometrics. Principal component analysis (PCA), least squares-support vec...

This paper describes recognition of emotions of an unkown person during natural walking. As gait data is redundant, high dimensional and variable, effective feature extraction is essential. A combination of two consecutive Principal Component Analyses (PCA) and Fourier Transformation is used for data reduction. Naive Bayes, 1-Nearest Neighbor and Support Vector Machine (SVM) are compared for cl...

The acoustic data remotely measured by microphones are widely used to investigate monitoring and diagnose integrity of ball bearing in rotational machines. Early fault diagnosis is very difficult for acoustic emission. We propose a new method using a cross-correlation of frequency spectrum to classify various faults with fine grit. Principal component analysis (PCA) is used to separate the prim...

Conditional Volatility of stock market returns is one of the major problems in time series analysis. Support Vector Machine (SVM) has been applied for volatility estimation of stock market data with limited success, the limitation being in accurate volatility feature predictions due to general kernel functions. However, since Principal Component Analysis(PCA) technique yields good characteristi...

Identification of prostatic calculi is an important basis for determining the tissue origin. Computation-assistant diagnosis of prostatic calculi may have promising potential but is currently still less studied. We studied the extraction of prostatic lumina and automated recognition for calculus images. Extraction of lumina from prostate histology images was based on local entropy and Otsu thre...

This paper addresses the issue of combining pre-processing methods—dimensionality reduction using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Locally Linear Embedding (LLE)—with Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification for a behaviorally important task in humans: gender classification. A processed version of the MPI head database is used as stimulus set. First, summary statistics of the head data...