Probability Distributions.- Linear Models for Regression.- Linear Models for Classification.- Neural Networks.- Kernel Methods.- Sparse Kernel Machines.- Graphical Models.- Mixture Models and EM.- Approximate Inference.- Sampling Methods.- Continuous Latent Variables.- Sequential Data.- Combining Models.

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

Secret History: Return of the Black Death Channel 4, 7-8pm In 1348 the Black Death swept through London, killing people within days of the appearance of their first symptoms. Exactly how many died, and why, has long been a mystery. This Secret History documentary follows experts as they pick through the evidence and reveal why the plague killed on such a scale. And they ask, what might be coming next?

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eMedicine创建于1996年，由近万名临床医师作为作者或编辑参与此临床医学知识库的建设，其中编辑均是来自美国哈佛、耶鲁、斯坦福、芝加哥、德克萨斯、加州大学等各分校医学院的教授或副教授。

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Neural networks

Texture features for image classification and retrieval.

Over the last few decades pattern classification has been one of the most challenging area of research. In the present-age pattern classification problems, the support vector machines (SVMs) have been extensively adopted as machine learning tools. SVM achieves higher generalization performance, as it utilizes an induction principle called structural risk minimization (SRM) principle. The SRM principle seeks to minimize the upper bound of the generalization error consisting of the sum of the training error and a confidence interval. SVMs are basically designed for binary classification problems and employs supervised learning to find the optimal separating hyperplane between the two classes of data. The main objective of this paper is to introduce a most promising pattern recognition technique called cross-correlation aided SVM based classifier. The idea of using cross-correlation for feature extraction is relatively new in the domain of pattern recognition. In this paper, the proposed technique has been utilized for binary classification of EEG signals. The binary classifiers employ suitable features extracted from crosscorrelograms of EEG signals. These cross-correlation aided SVM classifiers have been employed for some benchmark EEG signals and the proposed method could achieve classification accuracy as high as 95.96% compared to a recently proposed method where the reported accuracy was 94.5%.

Cross-correlation aided support vector machine classifier for classification of EEG signals

This letter presents an automated obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) detection method with high accuracy, based on a deep learning framework employing convolutional neural network. The proposed work develops a system that takes single lead electrocardiography signals from patients for analysis and detects the OSA condition of the patient. The results show that the proposed method has some advantages in solving such problems and it outperforms the existing methods significantly. The present scheme eliminates the requirement of separate feature extraction and classification algorithms for the detection of OSA. The proposed network performs both feature learning and classifies the features in a supervised manner. The scheme is computation-intensive, but can achieve very high degree of accuracy-on an average a margin of more than 9% compared to other published literature till date. The method also has a good immunity to the contamination of the signals by noise. Even with pessimistic signal to noise ratio values considered here, the methods already reported are not able to outshine the present method. The software for the algorithm reported here can be a good contender to constitute a module that can be integrated with a portable medical diagnostic system.

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Obstructive sleep apnoea detection using convolutional neural network based deep learning framework.

Correlation technique and least square support vector machine combine for frequency domain based ECG beat classification

In this work a new approach based on cross-wavelet transform towards identification of noisy Partial Discharge (PD) patterns has been proposed. Different partial discharge patterns are recorded from the various samples prepared with known defects. A novel cross-wavelet transform based technique is used for feature extraction from raw noisy partial discharge signals. Noise is a significant problem in PD detection. The proposed method eliminates the requirement of denoising prior to processing and therefore it can be used to develop an automated and intelligent PD detector that requires minimal human expertise during its operation and analysis. A rough-set theory (RST) based classifier is used to classify the extracted features. Results show that the partial discharge patterns can be classified properly from the noisy waveforms. The effectiveness of the feature extraction methodology has also been verified with two other commonly used classification techniques: Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based classifier and Fuzzy classifier. It is found that the type of defect within insulation can be classified efficiently with the features extracted from cross-wavelet spectra of PD waveforms by all of these methods with a reasonable degree of accuracy.

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Cross-wavelet transform as a new paradigm for feature extraction from noisy partial discharge pulses

In this paper an Adaptive Bacterial Foraging is proposed for fuzzy entropy optimization when it is applied to the segmentation of gray images. The proposed algorithm represents the improved version of classical bacterial foraging algorithm which is a newly developed stochastic optimization tool. This optimization technique is applied for optimization of the fitness function which is fuzzy entropy. Classical bacterial foraging algorithm is improved by adaptively selecting the exploitation and exploration state in chemotaxis of E.coli. bacteria. The newly developed algorithm is applied on benchmark gray images and proved to be suitable for thresholding based image segmentation.

Sugata Munshi

Papers

Cross-correlation aided support vector machine classifier for classification of EEG signals

Obstructive sleep apnoea detection using convolutional neural network based deep learning framework.

Correlation technique and least square support vector machine combine for frequency domain based ECG beat classification

Cross-wavelet transform as a new paradigm for feature extraction from noisy partial discharge pulses

An adaptive bacterial foraging algorithm for fuzzy entropy based image segmentation