seismic facies analysis (sfa) aims to classify similar seismic traces based on amplitude, phase,frequency, and other seismic attributes. sfa has proven useful in interpreting seismic data, allowingsignificant information on subsurface geological structures to be extracted. while facies analysis hasbeen widely investigated through unsupervised-classification-based studies, there are few casesass...

BACKGROUND The increasing availability of clinical data from electronic medical records (EMRs) has created opportunities for secondary uses of health information. When used in machine learning classification, many data features must first be transformed by discretization. OBJECTIVE To evaluate six discretization strategies, both supervised and unsupervised, using EMR data. MATERIALS AND MET...

Unsupervised image segmentations are usually implemented without human interactions, but the segmentation is sometime incorrect for complicated images, especially when the features of different classes are very close. On the other hand, supervised image segmentation, utilizing the features obtained by machine-learning and then applying some classification algorithms to the features, can usually...

BACKGROUND The process of merging data of different data sources is referred to as record linkage. A medical environment with increased preconditions on privacy protection demands the transformation of clear-text attributes like first name or date of birth into one-way encrypted pseudonyms. When performing an automated or privacy preserving record linkage there might be the need of a binary cla...

A new approach to the classification of hyperspectral images is proposed. The main problem with supervised methods is that the learning process heavily depends on the quality of the training data set. In remote sensing, the training set is useful only for simultaneous images or for images with the same classes taken under the same conditions; and, even worse, the training set is frequently not ...

Supervised local tangent space alignment is proposed for data classification in this paper. It is an extension of local tangent space alignment, for short, LTSA, from unsupervised to supervised learning. Supervised LTSA is a supervised dimension reduction method. It make use of the class membership of each data to be trained in the case of multiple classes, to improve the quality of classificat...

Unsupervised pre-training was a critical technique for training deep neural networks years ago. With sufficient labeled data and modern training techniques, it is possible to train very deep neural networks from scratch in a purely supervised manner nowadays. However, unlabeled data is easier to obtain and usually of very large scale. How to make use of them better to help supervised learning i...

Ensemble learning with output from multiple supervised and unsupervised models aims to improve the classification accuracy of supervised model ensemble by jointly considering the grouping results from unsupervised models. In this paper we cast this ensemble task as an unconstrained probabilistic embedding problem. Specifically, we assume both objects and classes/clusters have latent coordinates...

We propose an automatic unsupervised cell event detection and classification method, which expands convolutional Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural networks, for cellular events in cell video sequences. Cells in images that are captured from various biomedical applications usually have different shapes and motility, which pose difficulties for the automated event detection in cell videos. Cur...

In this paper, we present a new feature selection method that is suitable for both unsupervised and supervised problems. We build upon the recently proposed Infinite Feature Selection (IFS) method where feature subsets of all sizes (including infinity) are considered. We extend IFS in two ways. First, we propose a supervised version of it. Second, we propose new ways of forming the feature adja...