Figure 1: Dendrogram with a threshold applied (---) to create clusters. The first cluster has genes A and B while the second one has genes C, D, and E. genes to be measured simultaneously. However, interpretation of the large data sets is complex. Commonly used methods include hierarchical clustering and k-nearest-neighbor [3]. After applying these methods, clusters of co-expressed genes are pr...

Typical disjunctive artificial classification tasks require participants to sort stimuli according to rules such as "x likes cars only when black and coupe OR white and SUV." For categories like this, increasing the salience of the diagnostic dimensions has two simultaneous effects: increasing the distance between members of the same category and increasing the distance between members of oppos...

Recently, an extension of popular learning vector quantization (LVQ) to general dissimilarity data has been proposed, relational generalized LVQ (RGLVQ) [10, 9]. An intuitive prototype based classification scheme results which can divide data characterized by pairwise dissimilarities into priorly given categories. However, the technique relies on the full dissimilarity matrix and, thus, has squ...

IcePick is a system for computationally selecting diverse sets of molecules. It computes the dissimilarity of the surface-accessible features of two molecules, taking into account conformational flexibility. Then, the intrinsic diversity of an entire set of molecules is calculated from a spanning tree over the pairwise dissimilarities. IcePick's dissimilarity measure is compared against traditi...

Various problems in machine learning, databases, and statistics involve pairwise distances among a set of objects. It is often desirable for these distances to satisfy the properties of a metric, especially the triangle inequality. Applications where metric data is useful include clustering, classification, metric-based indexing, and approximation algorithms for various graph problems. This pap...

Based on bidirectional similarity measure between patches of image, in this study, we investigate the similarity criterion of image for resizing image. First, our scheme implements image resizing by Seam Carving step by step. For each step, we remove five seams, and then calculate the dissimilarity between the original image and its resized one as well as the relative difference of dissimilarit...

Relevance feedback is an effective tool to bridge the gap between superficial image contents and medically-relevant sense in content-based medical image retrieval. In this paper, we propose an interactive medical image search framework based on pairwise constraint propagation. The basic idea is to obtain pairwise constraints from user feedback and propagate them to the entire image set to recon...

Training discriminative classifiers for a large number of classes is a challenging problem due to increased ambiguities between classes. In order to better handle the ambiguities and to improve the scalability of classifiers to larger number of categories, we learn pairwise dissimilarity profiles (functions of spatial location) between categories and adapt them into nearest neighbor classificat...

Nonnegative matrix factorization NMF is a popular tool for analyzing the latent structure of nonnegative data. For a positive pairwise similarity matrix, symmetric NMF SNMF and weighted NMF WNMF can be used to cluster the data. However, both of them are not very efficient for the ill-structured pairwise similarity matrix. In this paper, a novel model, called relationship matrix nonnegative deco...