• 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 for domain adaptation using complexity measures and swarm intelligence 

      Castillo-García, G.; Morán-Fernández, Laura; Bolón-Canedo, Verónica (Elsevier B.V., 2023-09-01)
      [Abstract]: Particle Swarm Optimization is an optimization algorithm that mimics the behaviour of a flock of birds, setting multiple particles that explore the search space guided by a fitness function in order to find the ...
    • 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, ...
    • Finding a needle in a haystack: insights on feature selection for classification tasks 

      Morán-Fernández, Laura; Bolón-Canedo, Verónica (Springer, 2024-04)
      [Abstract]: The growth of Big Data has resulted in an overwhelming increase in the volume of data available, including the number of features. Feature selection, the process of selecting relevant features and discarding ...
    • 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 ...
    • Human-in-the-loop machine learning: a state of the art 

      Mosqueira-Rey, E.; Hernández-Pereira, Elena; Alonso Ríos, David; Bobes-Bascarán, José; Fernández-Leal, Ángel (Springer Nature, 2023-04)
      [Abstract]: Researchers are defining new types of interactions between humans and machine learning algorithms generically called human-in-the-loop machine learning. Depending on who is in control of the learning process, ...
    • 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 ...
    • La inteligencia artificial y la prospectiva 

      Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo (Colegio de Economistas de La Coruña, 2023)
      [Resumen]: La Inteligencia Artificial (IA) es una de las tecnologías que más está influyendo en el actual tránsito a la llamada Sociedad 5.0, la sociedad creativa e inteligente del futuro, que la Unión Europea, junto con ...
    • 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 ...