• FacialSCDnet: A deep learning approach for the estimation of subject-to-camera distance in facial photographs 

      Bermejo, Enrique; Fernández-Blanco, Enrique; Valsecchi, Andrea; Mesejo, Pablo; Ibáñez, Oscar; Imaizumi, Kazuhiko (Elsevier, 2022)
      [Abstract]: Facial biometrics play an essential role in the fields of law enforcement and forensic sciences. When comparing facial traits for human identification in photographs or videos, the analysis must account for ...
    • Fast anomaly detection with locality-sensitive hashing and hyperparameter autotuning 

      Meira, Jorge; Eiras-Franco, Carlos; Bolón-Canedo, Verónica; Marreiros, Goreti; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo (Elsevier, 2022-08)
      [Abstract]: This paper presents LSHAD, an anomaly detection (AD) method based on Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH), capable of dealing with large-scale datasets. The resulting algorithm is highly parallelizable and its ...
    • Fast deep autoencoder for federated learning 

      Novoa-Paradela, David; Fontenla-Romero, Óscar; Guijarro-Berdiñas, Bertha (Elsevier Ltd, 2023-11)
      [Abstract]: This paper presents a novel, fast and privacy preserving implementation of deep autoencoders. DAEF (Deep AutoEncoder for Federated learning), unlike traditional neural networks, trains a deep autoencoder network ...
    • Fast Distributed kNN Graph Construction Using Auto-tuned Locality-sensitive Hashing 

      Eiras-Franco, Carlos; Martínez Rego, David; Kanthan, Leslie; Piñeiro, César; Bahamonde, Antonio; Guijarro-Berdiñas, Bertha; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo (Association for Computing Machinery, 2020)
      [Abstract]: The k-nearest-neighbors (kNN) graph is a popular and powerful data structure that is used in various areas of Data Science, but the high computational cost of obtaining it hinders its use on large datasets. ...
    • Feature selection with limited bit depth mutual information for portable embedded systems 

      Morán-Fernández, Laura; Sechidis, Konstantinos; Bolón-Canedo, Verónica; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo; Brown, Gavin (Elsevier, 2020-06)
      [Abstract]: Since wearable computing systems have grown in importance in the last years, there is an increased interest in implementing machine learning algorithms with reduced precision parameters/computations. Not only ...
    • FedHEONN: Federated and homomorphically encrypted learning method for one-layer neural networks 

      Fontenla-Romero, Óscar; Guijarro-Berdiñas, Bertha; Hernández-Pereira, Elena; Pérez-Sánchez, Beatriz (Elsevier B.V., 2023)
      [Abstract]: Federated learning (FL) is a distributed approach to developing collaborative learning models from decentralized data. This is relevant to many real applications, such as in the field of the Internet of Things, ...
    • How Important Is Data Quality? Best Classifiers vs Best Features 

      Morán-Fernández, Laura; Bolón-Canedo, Verónica; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo (Elsevier, 2021)
      [Abstract] The task of choosing the appropriate classifier for a given scenario is not an easy-to-solve question. First, there is an increasingly high number of algorithms available belonging to different families. And ...
    • Improving detection of apneic events by learning from examples and treatment of missing data 

      Hernández-Pereira, Elena; Álvarez-Estévez, Diego; Moret-Bonillo, Vicente (I O S Press, 2014)
      [Abstract] This paper presents a comparative study over the respiratory pattern classification task involving three missing data imputation techniques, and four different machine learning algorithms. The main goal was to ...
    • Insights into distributed feature ranking 

      Bolón-Canedo, Verónica; Sechidis, Konstantinos; Sánchez-Maroño, Noelia; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo; Brown, Gavin (Elsevier, 2019)
      [Abstract]: In an era in which the volume and complexity of datasets is continuously growing, feature selection techniques have become indispensable to extract useful information from huge amounts of data. However, existing ...
    • Intelligent approach for analysis of respiratory signals and oxygen saturation in the sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome 

      Moret-Bonillo, Vicente; Álvarez-Estévez, Diego; Fernández-Leal, Ángel; Hernández-Pereira, Elena (Bentham Open, 2014-06-13)
      This work deals with the development of an intelligent approach for clinical decision making in the diagnosis of the Sleep Apnea/Hypopnea Syndrome, SAHS, from the analysis of respiratory signals and oxygen saturation in ...
    • Inter-database validation of a deep learning approach for automatic sleep scoring 

      Álvarez-Estévez, Diego; Rijsman, Roselyne M. (PLOS, 2021)
      [Abstract] Study objectives Development of inter-database generalizable sleep staging algorithms represents a challenge due to increased data variability across different datasets. Sharing data between different centers ...
    • Large scale anomaly detection in mixed numerical and categorical input spaces 

      Eiras-Franco, Carlos; Martínez Rego, David; Guijarro-Berdiñas, Bertha; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo; Bahamonde, Antonio (Elsevier, 2019)
      [Abstract]: This work presents the ADMNC method, designed to tackle anomaly detection for large-scale problems with a mixture of categorical and numerical input variables. A flexible parametric probability measure is ...
    • Low-Precision Feature Selection on Microarray Data: An Information Theoretic Approach 

      Morán-Fernández, Laura; Bolón-Canedo, Verónica; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo (Springer, 2022)
      [Abstract] The number of interconnected devices, such as personal wearables, cars, and smart-homes, surrounding us every day has recently increased. The Internet of Things devices monitor many processes, and have the ...
    • Machine Learning Techniques to Predict Different Levels of Hospital Care of CoVid-19 

      Hernández-Pereira, Elena; Fontenla-Romero, Óscar; Bolón-Canedo, Verónica; Cancela, Brais; Guijarro-Berdiñas, Bertha; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo (Springer, 2022)
      [Abstract] In this study, we analyze the capability of several state of the art machine learning methods to predict whether patients diagnosed with CoVid-19 (CoronaVirus disease 2019) will need different levels of hospital ...
    • On developing an automatic threshold applied to feature selection ensembles 

      Seijo Pardo, Borja; Bolón-Canedo, Verónica; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo (Elsevier, 2019-01)
      [Abstract]: Feature selection ensemble methods are a recent approach aiming at adding diversity in sets of selected features, improving performance and obtaining more robust and stable results. However, using an ensemble ...
    • On the Reliability of Machine Learning Models for Survival Analysis When Cure Is a Possibility 

      Ezquerro, Ana; Cancela, Brais; López-Cheda, Ana (MDPI, 2023-10-02)
      [Abstract]: In classical survival analysis, it is assumed that all the individuals will experience the event of interest. However, if there is a proportion of subjects who will never experience the event, then a standard ...
    • On the scalability of feature selection methods on high-dimensional data 

      Bolón-Canedo, Verónica; Rego-Fernández, Diego; Peteiro Barral, Diego; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo; Guijarro-Berdiñas, Bertha; Sánchez-Maroño, Noelia (Springer, 2018)
      [Abstract]: Lately, derived from the explosion of high dimensionality, researchers in machine learning became interested not only in accuracy, but also in scalability. Although scalability of learning methods is a trending ...
    • Quality of sleep data validation from the Xiaomi Mi Band 5 against polysomnography: comparison study 

      Concheiro-Moscoso, Patricia; Groba, Betania; Álvarez-Estévez, Diego; Miranda-Duro, María del Carmen; Pousada, Thais; Nieto-Riveiro, Laura; Mejuto Muiño, Francisco Javier; Pereira-Loureiro, Javier (JMIR Publications, 2023-05)
      [Abstract] Background: Polysomnography is the gold standard for measuring and detecting sleep patterns. In recent years, activity wristbands have become popular because they record continuous data in real time. Hence, ...
    • Quantum Computing for Dealing with Inaccurate Knowledge Related to the Certainty Factors Model 

      Moret-Bonillo, Vicente; Magaz Romero, Samuel; Mosqueira-Rey, E. (MDPI, 2022)
      [Abstract] In this paper, we illustrate that inaccurate knowledge can be efficiently implemented in a quantum environment. For this purpose, we analyse the correlation between certainty factors and quantum probability. We ...
    • Reduced precision discretization based on information theory 

      Ares, Brais; Morán-Fernández, Laura; Bolón-Canedo, Verónica (Elsevier, 2022-01)
      [Abstract] In recent years, new technological areas have emerged and proliferated, such as the Internet of Things or embedded systems in drones, which are usually characterized by making use of devices with strict requirements ...