Data Mining, Machine Learning and Network Analysis in Biomedical Informatics

A special issue of Mathematics (ISSN 2227-7390). This special issue belongs to the section "Mathematical Biology".

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Department of Computer Graphics and Image Processing, Faculty of Informatics, University of Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary
Interests: digital image processing; bioinformatics; discrete geometry; big data

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Faculty of Informatics, University of Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary
Interests: data science; machine learning

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Exploiting data assets with advanced techniques, especially artificial intelligence, is expected to dominate all disciplines, including biomedicine. In addition to their potential to be further developed with appropriate theoretical tools, machine learning-based models can also improve the accuracy of theoretical models by further adopting observed data. This Special Issue aims to present new advances in biomedical informatics, particularly for the better exploitation of biological and clinical data resources for the more efficient operation and development of biomedical informatics systems to improve healthcare solutions.

This Special Issue focuses on, but is not limited to, optimizing or replacing theoretical models with machine learning ones regarding any component of a biomedical information system. In addition to deeper theoretical approaches, we intend to publish contributions that achieve new results with state-of-the-art artificial intelligence-based methods or more traditional data mining or machine learning ones. Within the biomedical field the scope is not limited.

Prof. Dr. Andras Hajdu
Dr. Balazs Harangi
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • artificial intelligence
  • automated screening systems
  • big data analysis
  • clinical decision support
  • computational systems
  • data mining
  • databases and datasets
  • deep learning
  • health informatics
  • imaging, image, and signal processing
  • machine learning
  • modeling and simulation
  • natural language processing
  • network analysis
  • optimization
  • sensors and wearable systems

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Using Noisy Evaluation to Accelerate Parameter Optimization of Medical Image Segmentation Ensembles
by János Tóth, Henrietta Tomán, Gabriella Hajdu and András Hajdu
Mathematics 2023, 11(18), 3992; https://doi.org/10.3390/math11183992 - 20 Sep 2023
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An important concern with regard to the ensembles of algorithms is that using the individually optimal parameter settings of the members does not necessarily maximize the performance of the ensemble itself. In this paper, we propose a novel evaluation method for simulated annealing [...] Read more.
An important concern with regard to the ensembles of algorithms is that using the individually optimal parameter settings of the members does not necessarily maximize the performance of the ensemble itself. In this paper, we propose a novel evaluation method for simulated annealing that combines dataset sampling and image downscaling to accelerate the parameter optimization of medical image segmentation ensembles. The scaling levels and sample sizes required to maintain the convergence of the search are theoretically determined by adapting previous results for simulated annealing with imprecise energy measurements. To demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method, we optimize the parameters of an ensemble for lung segmentation in CT scans. Our experimental results show that the proposed method can maintain the solution quality of the base method with significantly lower runtime. In our problem, optimization with simulated annealing yielded an F1 score of 0.9397 and an associated MCC of 0.7757. Our proposed method maintained the solution quality with an F1 score of 0.9395 and MCC of 0.7755 while exhibiting a 42.01% reduction in runtime. It was also shown that the proposed method is more efficient than simulated annealing with only sampling-based evaluation when the dataset size is below a problem-specific threshold. Full article
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