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Ordinal Hyperplane Loss, Bob Vanderheyden
Ordinal Hyperplane Loss, Bob Vanderheyden
Doctor of Data Science and Analytics Dissertations
This research presents the development of a new framework for analyzing ordered class data, commonly called “ordinal class” data. The focus of the work is the development of classifiers (predictive models) that predict classes from available data. Ratings scales, medical classification scales, socio-economic scales, meaningful groupings of continuous data, facial emotional intensity and facial age estimation are examples of ordinal data for which data scientists may be asked to develop predictive classifiers. It is possible to treat ordinal classification like any other classification problem that has more than two classes. Specifying a model with this strategy does not fully utilize …
A New Method To Solve Same-Different Problems With Few-Shot Learning, Yuanyuan Han
A New Method To Solve Same-Different Problems With Few-Shot Learning, Yuanyuan Han
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Visual learning of highly abstract concepts is often simple for humans but very challenging for machines. Same-different (SD) problems are a visual reasoning task with highly abstract concepts. Previous work has shown that SD problems are difficult to solve with standard deep learning algorithms, especially in the few-shot case, despite the ability of such algorithms to learn abstract features. In this thesis, we propose a new method to solve SD problems with few training samples, in which same-different visual concepts can be recognized by examining similarities between Regions of Interest by using a same-different twins network. Our method achieves state-of-the-art …
Response Retrieval In Information-Seeking Conversations, Liu Yang
Response Retrieval In Information-Seeking Conversations, Liu Yang
Doctoral Dissertations
The increasing popularity of mobile Internet has led to several crucial changes in the way that people use search engines compared with traditional Web search on desktops. On one hand, there is limited output bandwidth with the small screen sizes of most mobile devices. Mobile Internet users prefer direct answers on the search engine result page (SERP). On the other hand, voice-based / text-based conversational interfaces are becoming increasing popular as shown in the wide adoption of intelligent assistant services and devices such as Amazon Echo, Microsoft Cortana and Google Assistant around the world. These important changes have triggered several …
Insider’S Misuse Detection: From Hidden Markov Model To Deep Learning, Ahmed Saaudi
Insider’S Misuse Detection: From Hidden Markov Model To Deep Learning, Ahmed Saaudi
Theses and Dissertations
Malicious insiders increasingly affect organizations by leaking classified data to unautho- rized entities. Detecting insiders’ misuses in computer systems is a challenging problem. In this dissertation, we propose two approaches to detect such threats: a probabilistic graph- ical model-based approach and a deep learning-based approach. We investigate the logs of computer-based activities to discover patterns of misuse. We model user’s behaviors as sequences of computer-based events.
For our probabilistic graphical model-based approach, we propose an unsupervised model for insider’s misuse detection. That is, we develop Stochastic Gradient Descent method to learn Hidden Markov Models (SGD-HMM) with the goal of analyzing …
Texture-Based Deep Neural Network For Histopathology Cancer Whole Slide Image (Wsi) Classification, Nelson Zange Tsaku
Texture-Based Deep Neural Network For Histopathology Cancer Whole Slide Image (Wsi) Classification, Nelson Zange Tsaku
Master of Science in Computer Science Theses
Automatic histopathological Whole Slide Image (WSI) analysis for cancer classification has been highlighted along with the advancements in microscopic imaging techniques. However, manual examination and diagnosis with WSIs is time-consuming and tiresome. Recently, deep convolutional neural networks have succeeded in histopathological image analysis. In this paper, we propose a novel cancer texture-based deep neural network (CAT-Net) that learns scalable texture features from histopathological WSIs. The innovation of CAT-Net is twofold: (1) capturing invariant spatial patterns by dilated convolutional layers and (2) Reducing model complexity while improving performance. Moreover, CAT-Net can provide discriminative texture patterns formed on cancerous regions of histopathological …
Data-Driven Approach To Image Classification, Venkatesh Narasimhamurthy
Data-Driven Approach To Image Classification, Venkatesh Narasimhamurthy
Doctoral Dissertations
Image classification has been a core topic in the computer vision community. Its recent success with convolutional neural network (CNN) algorithm has led to various real world applications such as large scale management of photos/videos on cloud/social-media, image based search for online retailers, self-driving cars, building robots and healthcare. Image classification can be broadly categorized into binary, multi-class and multi-label classification problems. Binary classification involves assigning one of the two class labels to an instance. In multi-class classification problem, an instance should be categorized into one of more than two classes. Multi-label classification is a generalized version of the multi-class …
Sequential Survival Analysis With Deep Learning, Seth William Glazier
Sequential Survival Analysis With Deep Learning, Seth William Glazier
Theses and Dissertations
Survival Analysis is the collection of statistical techniques used to model the time of occurrence, i.e. survival time, of an event of interest such as death, marriage, the lifespan of a consumer product or the onset of a disease. Traditional survival analysis methods rely on assumptions that make it difficult, if not impossible to learn complex non-linear relationships between the covariates and survival time that is inherent in many real world applications. We first demonstrate that a recurrent neural network (RNN) is better suited to model problems with non-linear dependencies in synthetic time-dependent and non-time-dependent experiments.
A Study On Large-Scale Deep Learning In Bioinformatics And Biomedical Applications, Shayan Shams
A Study On Large-Scale Deep Learning In Bioinformatics And Biomedical Applications, Shayan Shams
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence and deep learning have provided researchers in various fields insights into the analysis of multiple datasets. These applications include image analysis, text analysis, and many more. However, the effectiveness of deep learning in some areas, such as biomedical imaging and genomic research, has been overshadowed by the variance in the types and complexity of data. This is in addition to the expensive labeling process and the limited size of datasets in these fields. These challenges require advanced deep learning models capable of learning from a small dataset and also from a small number of labeled …
Deep Learning Based Real Time Devanagari Character Recognition, Aseem Chhabra
Deep Learning Based Real Time Devanagari Character Recognition, Aseem Chhabra
Master's Projects
The revolutionization of the technology behind optical character recognition (OCR) has helped it to become one of those technologies that have found plenty of uses in the entire industrial space. Today, the OCR is available for several languages and have the capability to recognize the characters in real time, but there are some languages for which this technology has not developed much. All these advancements have been possible because of the introduction of concepts like artificial intelligence and deep learning. Deep Neural Networks have proven to be the best choice when it comes to a task involving recognition. There are …
Learning To Play The Trading Game, Neeraj Kulkarni
Learning To Play The Trading Game, Neeraj Kulkarni
Master's Projects
Can we train a stock trading bot that can take decisions in high-entropy envi- ronments like stock markets to generate profits based on some optimal policy? Can we further extend this learning for any general trading problem? Quantitative Al- gorithms are responsible for more than 75% of the stock trading around the world. Creating a stock market prediction model is comparatively easy. But creating a prof- itable prediction model is still considered as a challenging task in the field of machine learning and deep learning due to the unpredictability of the financial markets. Us- ing biologically inspired computing techniques of …
Pose Estimation And Action Recognition In Sports And Fitness, Parth Vyas
Pose Estimation And Action Recognition In Sports And Fitness, Parth Vyas
Master's Projects
The emergence of large datasets and major improvements in Deep Learning has lead to many real-world applications. These applications have been focused on automotive markets, mobile markets, stock markets, and the healthcare market. Although Deep Learning has strong foundations across many areas, the few applications in Sports, Fitness, or even Injury Rehabilitation could benefit greatly from it. For example, if you are performing a workout and you need to evaluate your form, but do not have access or resources for an instructor to evaluate your form, it would be great to have an Artificial Intelligent agent provide real time feedback …
Detecting Cars In A Parking Lot Using Deep Learning, Samuel Ordonia
Detecting Cars In A Parking Lot Using Deep Learning, Samuel Ordonia
Master's Projects
Detection of cars in a parking lot with deep learning involves locating all objects of interest in a parking lot image and classifying the contents of all bounding boxes as cars. Because of the variety of shape, color, contrast, pose, and occlusion, a deep neural net was chosen to encompass all the significant features required by the detector to differentiate cars from not cars. In this project, car detection was accomplished with a convolutional neural net (CNN) based on the You Only Look Once (YOLO) model architectures. An application was built to train and validate a car detection CNN as …
Improving Neural Sequence Labelling Using Additional Linguistic Information, Muhammad Rifayat Samee
Improving Neural Sequence Labelling Using Additional Linguistic Information, Muhammad Rifayat Samee
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Sequence Labelling is the task of mapping sequential data from one domain to another domain. As we can interpret language as a sequence of words, sequence labelling is very common in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). In NLP, some fundamental sequence labelling tasks are Parts-of-Speech Tagging, Named Entity Recognition, Chunking, etc. Moreover, many NLP tasks can be modeled as sequence labelling or sequence to sequence labelling such as machine translation, information retrieval and question answering. An extensive amount of research has already been performed on sequence labelling. Most of the current high performing models are neural network models. …
Deep Embedding Kernel, Linh Le
Deep Embedding Kernel, Linh Le
Doctor of Data Science and Analytics Dissertations
Kernel methods and deep learning are two major branches of machine learning that have achieved numerous successes in both analytics and artificial intelligence. While having their own unique characteristics, both branches work through mapping data to a feature space that is supposedly more favorable towards the given task. This dissertation addresses the strengths and weaknesses of each mapping method through combining them and forming a family of novel deep architectures that center around the Deep Embedding Kernel (DEK). In short, DEK is a realization of a kernel function through a newly deep architecture. The mapping in DEK is both implicit …
Neural Machine Translation, Quinn M. Lanners, Thomas Laurent
Neural Machine Translation, Quinn M. Lanners, Thomas Laurent
Honors Thesis
Neural Machine Translation is the primary algorithm used in industry to perform machine translation. This state-of-the-art algorithm is an application of deep learning in which massive datasets of translated sentences are used to train a model capable of translating between any two languages. The architecture behind neural machine translation is composed of two recurrent neural networks used together in tandem to create an Encoder Decoder structure. Attention mechanisms have recently been developed to further increase the accuracy of these models. In this senior thesis, the various parts of Neural Machine Translation are explored towards the eventual creation of a tutorial …
Deep Learning Based Medical Image Analysis With Limited Data, Jiaxing Tan
Deep Learning Based Medical Image Analysis With Limited Data, Jiaxing Tan
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Deep Learning Methods have shown its great effort in the area of Computer Vision. However, when solving the problems of medical imaging, deep learning’s power is confined by limited data available. We present a series of novel methodologies for solving medical imaging analysis problems with limited Computed tomography (CT) scans available. Our method, based on deep learning, with different strategies, including using Generative Adversar- ial Networks, two-stage training, infusing the expert knowledge, voting based or converting to other space, solves the data set limitation issue for the cur- rent medical imaging problems, specifically cancer detection and diagnosis, and shows very …
Opioid Misuse Detection In Hospitalized Patients Using Convolutional Neural Networks, Brihat Sharma
Opioid Misuse Detection In Hospitalized Patients Using Convolutional Neural Networks, Brihat Sharma
Master's Theses
Opioid misuse is a major public health problem in the world. In 2016, 11.3 million people were reported to misuse opioids in the US only. Opioid-related inpatient and emergency department visits have increased by 64 percent and the rate of opioid-related visits has nearly doubled between 2009 and 2014. It is thus critical for healthcare systems to detect opioid misuse cases. Patients hospitalized for consequences of their opioid misuse present an opportunity for intervention but better screening and surveillance methods are needed to guide providers. The current screening methods with self-report questionnaire data are time-consuming and difficult to perform in …
Dedicated Hardware For Machine/Deep Learning: Domain Specific Architectures, Angel Izael Solis
Dedicated Hardware For Machine/Deep Learning: Domain Specific Architectures, Angel Izael Solis
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
Artificial intelligence has come a very long way from being a mere spectacle on the silver screen in the 1920s [Hml18]. As artificial intelligence continues to evolve, and we begin to develop more sophisticated Artificial Neural Networks, the need for specialized and more efficient machines (less computational strain while maintaining the same performance results) becomes increasingly evident. Though these new techniques, such as Multilayer Perceptrons, Convolutional Neural Networks and Recurrent Neural Networks, may seem as if they are on the cutting edge of technology, many of these ideas are over 60 years old! However, many of these earlier models, at …
A Novel Set Of Weight Initialization Techniques For Deep Learning Architectures, Diego Aguirre
A Novel Set Of Weight Initialization Techniques For Deep Learning Architectures, Diego Aguirre
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
The importance of weight initialization when building a deep learning model is often underappreciated. Even though it is usually seen as a minor detail in the model creation cycle, this process has shown to have a strong impact on the training time of a network and the quality of the resulting model. In fact, the implications of choosing a poor initialization scheme range from leading to the creation of a poorly performing model to preventing optimization techniques (like stochastic gradient descent) from converging.
In this work, we introduce and evaluate a set of novel weight initialization techniques for deep learning …
A Deep Dive Into The Land Development Dynamics Of A Complex Landscape, Pariya Pourmohammadi
A Deep Dive Into The Land Development Dynamics Of A Complex Landscape, Pariya Pourmohammadi
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
Land development is a complex and dynamic process simultaneously interacting with numerous environmental, cultural and economic procedures. In this research we studied past, present and future of land transformation in Appalachia. This dissertation is organized in three-essay format and each essay is focused on one aspect of land development processes in a sub-region in the Appalachian region. In the first essay, deep learning techniques are used to build predictive models for the land development. This study presets deconvolutional neural networks models in predicting land development. On the second essay, spatial data analysis and remote sensing are used to investigate the …
Explainable Neural Attention Recommender Systems, Omer Tal
Explainable Neural Attention Recommender Systems, Omer Tal
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
Recommender systems, predictive models that provide lists of personalized suggestions, have become increasingly popular in many web-based businesses. By presenting potential items that may interest a user, these systems are able to better monetize and improve users’ satisfaction. In recent years, the most successful approaches rely on capturing what best define users and items in the form of latent vectors, a numeric representation that assumes all instances can be described by their respective affiliation towards a set of hidden features. However, recommendation methods based on latent features still face some realworld limitations. The data sparsity problem originates from the unprecedented …
Quantifying Human Biological Age: A Machine Learning Approach, Syed Ashiqur Rahman
Quantifying Human Biological Age: A Machine Learning Approach, Syed Ashiqur Rahman
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
Quantifying human biological age is an important and difficult challenge. Different biomarkers and numerous approaches have been studied for biological age prediction, each with its advantages and limitations. In this work, we first introduce a new anthropometric measure (called Surface-based Body Shape Index, SBSI) that accounts for both body shape and body size, and evaluate its performance as a predictor of all-cause mortality. We analyzed data from the National Health and Human Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Based on the analysis, we introduce a new body shape index constructed from four important anthropometric determinants of body shape and body size: body …
Towards Improving Accuracy And Interpretability Of Deep Learning Based On Satellite Image Classification, Yamile Patino Vargas
Towards Improving Accuracy And Interpretability Of Deep Learning Based On Satellite Image Classification, Yamile Patino Vargas
Dissertations and Theses
ABSTRACT
The study of satellite images provides a way to monitor changes in the surface of the Earth and the atmosphere. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have shown accurate results in solving practical problems in multiple fields. Some of the more recognized fields using CNNs are satellite imagery processing, medicine, communication, transportation, and computer vision. Despite the success of CNNs, there remains a need to explain the network predictions further and understand what the network is determining as valuable information.
There are several frameworks and methodologies developed to explain how CNNs predict outputs and what their internal representations are [1, 4, …
Efficient Detection Of Diseases By Feature Engineering Approach From Chest Radiograph, Avishek Mukherjee
Efficient Detection Of Diseases By Feature Engineering Approach From Chest Radiograph, Avishek Mukherjee
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Deep Learning is the new state-of-the-art technology in Image Processing. We applied Deep Learning techniques for identification of diseases from Radiographs made publicly available by NIH. We applied some Feature Engineering approach to augment the data from Anterior-Posterior position to Posterior-Anterior position and vice-versa for all the diseases, at the same point we suppressed ‘No Finding’ radiographs which contributed to more than 50% (approximately 60,000) of the dataset to top 1000 images. We also prepared a model by adding a huge amount of noise to the augmented data, which if need be can be deployed at rural locations which lack …
Emotion Forecasting In Dyadic Conversation : Characterizing And Predicting Future Emotion With Audio-Visual Information Using Deep Learning, Sadat Shahriar
Emotion Forecasting In Dyadic Conversation : Characterizing And Predicting Future Emotion With Audio-Visual Information Using Deep Learning, Sadat Shahriar
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Emotion forecasting is the task of predicting the future emotion of a speaker, i.e., the emotion label of the future speaking turn–based on the speaker’s past and current audio-visual cues. Emotion forecasting systems require new problem formulations that differ from traditional emotion recognition systems. In this thesis, we first explore two types of forecasting windows(i.e., analysis windows for which the speaker’s emotion is being forecasted): utterance forecasting and time forecasting. Utterance forecasting is based on speaking turns and forecasts what the speaker’s emotion will be after one, two, or three speaking turns. Time forecasting forecasts what the speaker’s emotion will …
Deep Neural Network Learning-Based Classifier Design For Big-Data Analytics, Krishnan Raghavan
Deep Neural Network Learning-Based Classifier Design For Big-Data Analytics, Krishnan Raghavan
Doctoral Dissertations
"In this digital age, big-data sets are commonly found in the field of healthcare, manufacturing and others where sustainable analysis is necessary to create useful information. Big-data sets are often characterized by high-dimensionality and massive sample size. High dimensionality refers to the presence of unwanted dimensions in the data where challenges such as noise, spurious correlation and incidental endogeneity are observed. Massive sample size, on the other hand, introduces the problem of heterogeneity because complex and unstructured data types must analyzed. To mitigate the impact of these challenges while considering the application of classification, a two step analysis approach is …
Rule Mining And Sequential Pattern Based Predictive Modeling With Emr Data, Orhan Abar
Rule Mining And Sequential Pattern Based Predictive Modeling With Emr Data, Orhan Abar
Theses and Dissertations--Computer Science
Electronic medical record (EMR) data is collected on a daily basis at hospitals and other healthcare facilities to track patients’ health situations including conditions, treatments (medications, procedures), diagnostics (labs) and associated healthcare operations. Besides being useful for individual patient care and hospital operations (e.g., billing, triaging), EMRs can also be exploited for secondary data analyses to glean discriminative patterns that hold across patient cohorts for different phenotypes. These patterns in turn can yield high level insights into disease progression with interventional potential. In this dissertation, using a large scale realistic EMR dataset of over one million patients visiting University of …
Knowledge Graph Reasoning Over Unseen Rdf Data, Bhargavacharan Reddy Kaithi
Knowledge Graph Reasoning Over Unseen Rdf Data, Bhargavacharan Reddy Kaithi
Browse all Theses and Dissertations
In recent years, the research in deep learning and knowledge engineering has made a wide impact on the data and knowledge representations. The research in knowledge engineering has frequently focused on modeling the high level human cognitive abilities, such as reasoning, making inferences, and validation. Semantic Web Technologies and Deep Learning have an interest in creating intelligent artifacts. Deep learning is a set of machine learning algorithms that attempt to model data representations through many layers of non-linear transformations. Deep learning is in- creasingly employed to analyze various knowledge representations mentioned in Semantic Web and provides better results for Semantic …