• Commentaries on Viewpoint: The ongoing need for good physiological investigation: Obstructive sleep apnea in HIV patients as a paradigm 

      Zuo, Li; Jouett, Noah P.; Eugenín, Jaime; Figueiredo Müller-Ribeiro, Flávia Camargos de; Cysique, Lucette A.; Fernández Tellez, Helio; Perlitz, Volker; Nieman, Gary; Hemmelgarn, Benjamin T.; Smith, Michael L.; Beltrán-Castillo, Sebastián; Bernhardi, Rommy von; Ribeiro-Marins, Fernanda; Peliky Fontes, Marco Antônio; Gandevia, Simon C.; Mekjavic, Igor B.; Kerkhof, Peter L. M.; Munck, Jan de; Moret-Bonillo, Vicente; Gatto, Louis A. (American Physiological Society, 2015-01-15)
      [Abstract] The intriguing paradigm put forth by Darquenne et al. (3) highlighted that improved therapy against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has come at the cost of elevated rates of chronic diseases, such as obstructive ...
    • Community detection and social network analysis based on the Italian wars of the 15th century 

      Fumanal-Idocin, Javier; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo; Cordón, Oscar; Bustince, Humberto; Minárová, Mária (Elsevier, 2020)
      [Abstract]: In this contribution we study social network modelling by using human interaction as a basis. To do so, we propose a new set of functions, affinities, designed to capture the nature of the local interactions ...
    • Computer-assisted analysis of polysomnographic recordings improves interscorer associated agreement and scoring times 

      Álvarez-Estévez, Diego; Rijsman, Roselyne M. (Public Library of Science, 2022-09)
      [Abstract]: Study objectives To investigate inter-scorer agreement and scoring time differences associated with visual and computer-assisted analysis of polysomnographic (PSG) recordings. Methods A group of 12 expert scorers ...
    • Computer-Assisted Diagnosis of the Sleep Apnea-Hypopnea Syndrome: A Review 

      Moret-Bonillo, Vicente; Álvarez-Estévez, Diego (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2015)
      Automatic diagnosis of the Sleep Apnea-Hypopnea Syndrome (SAHS) has become an important area of research due to the growing interest in the field of sleep medicine and the costs associated with its manual diagnosis. The ...
    • Data-driven predictive maintenance framework for railway systems 

      Meira, Jorge; Veloso, Bruno; Bolón-Canedo, Verónica; Marreiros, Goreti; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo; Gama, João (IOS Press, 2023)
      [Abstract]: The emergence of the Industry 4.0 trend brings automation and data exchange to industrial manufacturing. Using computational systems and IoT devices allows businesses to collect and deal with vast volumes of ...
    • Dealing with heterogeneity in the context of distributed feature selection for classification 

      Morillo-Salas, José Luis; Bolón-Canedo, Verónica; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo (Springer, 2021)
      [Abstract]: Advances in the information technologies have greatly contributed to the advent of larger datasets. These datasets often come from distributed sites, but even so, their large size usually means they cannot be ...
    • Distributed classification based on distances between probability distributions in feature space 

      Montero Manso, Pablo; Morán-Fernández, Laura; Bolón-Canedo, Verónica; Vilar, José; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo (Elsevier, 2019-09)
      [Abstract]: We consider a distributed framework where training and test samples drawn from the same distribution are available, with the training instances spread across disjoint nodes. In this setting, a novel learning ...
    • Distributed correlation-based feature selection in spark 

      Palma Mendoza, Raúl José; Marcos, Luis de; Rodríguez, Daniel; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo (Elsevier, 2019-09)
      [Abstract]: Feature selection (FS) is a key preprocessing step in data mining. CFS (Correlation-Based Feature Selection) is an FS algorithm that has been successfully applied to classification problems in many domains. We ...
    • E2E-FS: An End-to-End Feature Selection Method for Neural Networks 

      Cancela, Brais; Bolón-Canedo, Verónica; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo (IEEE, 2023-07)
      [Abstract]: Classic embedded feature selection algorithms are often divided in two large groups: tree-based algorithms and LASSO variants. Both approaches are focused in different aspects: while the tree-based algorithms ...
    • Emerging technologies in artificial intelligence: quantum rule-based systems 

      Moret-Bonillo, Vicente (Springer, 2018)
      [Abstract]: This article tries to establish synergies between two areas of research and development that are apparently disconnected: artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing (QC). The article begins with a brief ...
    • Ensembles for feature selection: A review and future trends 

      Bolón-Canedo, Verónica; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo (Elsevier, 2019)
      [Abstract]: Ensemble learning is a prolific field in Machine Learning since it is based on the assumption that combining the output of multiple models is better than using a single model, and it usually provides good ...
    • Explained anomaly detection in text reviews: Can subjective scenarios be correctly evaluated? 

      Novoa-Paradela, David; Fontenla-Romero, Óscar; Guijarro-Berdiñas, Bertha (2024-07)
      In the current landscape, user opinions exert an unprecedented influence on the trajectory of companies. In the field of online review platforms, these opinions, transmitted through text reviews and numerical ratings, ...
    • 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. ...
    • 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 ...