Skip to Content

772 Results Found

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,358 Views
30 Pages

A Broad TSK Fuzzy Classifier with a Simplified Set of Fuzzy Rules for Class-Imbalanced Learning

  • Jinghong Zhang,
  • Yingying Li,
  • Bowen Liu,
  • Hao Chen,
  • Jie Zhou,
  • Hualong Yu and
  • Bin Qin

13 October 2023

With the expansion of data scale and diversity, the issue of class imbalance has become increasingly salient. The current methods, including oversampling and under-sampling, exhibit limitations in handling complex data, leading to overfitting, loss o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,448 Views
14 Pages

Improving the Performance of an Associative Classifier in the Context of Class-Imbalanced Classification

  • Carlos Alberto Rolón-González,
  • Rodrigo Castañón-Méndez,
  • Antonio Alarcón-Paredes,
  • Itzamá López-Yáñez and
  • Cornelio Yáñez-Márquez

Class imbalance remains an open problem in pattern recognition, machine learning, and related fields. Many of the state-of-the-art classification algorithms tend to classify all unbalanced dataset patterns by assigning them to a majority class, thus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,741 Views
15 Pages

19 June 2020

Micro resistance spot welding (MRSW) is an important technology widely used in electronics manufacturing for micro component joining. For the joining of micro enameled wire, quality control is heavily dependent on manual inspection till now. In this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,703 Views
28 Pages

8 September 2025

Data stream classification is a critical challenge in data mining, where models must rapidly adapt to evolving data distributions and concept drift in real time, while extreme learning machines offer fast training and strong generalization, most exis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,848 Views
15 Pages

4 November 2021

Due to the imperfect assembly process, the unqualified assembly of a missing gasket or lead seal will affect the product’s performance and possibly cause safety accidents. Machine vision method based on deep learning has been widely used in quality i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,864 Views
21 Pages

12 April 2021

The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI) database is an international-standard training database for voice pathology detection (VPD) systems. However, there is a class-imbalanced distribution in normal and pathological voice samples and differe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,888 Views
12 Pages

7 February 2024

Imbalanced class data are commonly observed in pattern analysis, machine learning, and various real-world applications. Conventional approaches often resort to resampling techniques in order to address the imbalance, which inevitably alter the origin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,824 Views
22 Pages

Feature screening is an important and challenging topic in current class-imbalance learning. Most of the existing feature screening algorithms in class-imbalance learning are based on filtering techniques. However, the variable rankings obtained by v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,602 Views
16 Pages

29 September 2021

Falling represents one of the most serious health risks for elderly people; it may cause irreversible injuries if the individual cannot obtain timely treatment after the fall happens. Therefore, timely and accurate fall detection algorithm research i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,017 Views
20 Pages

RDPVR: Random Data Partitioning with Voting Rule for Machine Learning from Class-Imbalanced Datasets

  • Ahmad B. Hassanat,
  • Ahmad S. Tarawneh,
  • Samer Subhi Abed,
  • Ghada Awad Altarawneh,
  • Malek Alrashidi and
  • Mansoor Alghamdi

Since most classifiers are biased toward the dominant class, class imbalance is a challenging problem in machine learning. The most popular approaches to solving this problem include oversampling minority examples and undersampling majority examples....

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
8,445 Views
14 Pages

In the medical field, many outcome variables are dichotomized, and the two possible values of a dichotomized variable are referred to as classes. A dichotomized dataset is class-imbalanced if it consists mostly of one class, and performance of common...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,647 Views
16 Pages

21 July 2021

Class imbalance and high dimensionality are two major issues in several real-life applications, e.g., in the fields of bioinformatics, text mining and image classification. However, while both issues have been extensively studied in the machine learn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,601 Views
25 Pages

1 March 2023

The application of deep neural networks to address automatic modulation recognition (AMR) challenges has gained increasing popularity. Despite the outstanding capability of deep learning in automatic feature extraction, predictions based on low-data...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,817 Views
15 Pages

13 January 2021

Multi-class classification in imbalanced datasets is a challenging problem. In these cases, common validation metrics (such as accuracy or recall) are often not suitable. In many of these problems, often real-world problems related to health, some cl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,869 Views
20 Pages

18 October 2021

The recent explosive growth in the number of smart technologies relying on data collected from sensors and processed with machine learning classifiers made the training data imbalance problem more visible than ever before. Class-imbalanced sets used...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
8,186 Views
18 Pages

Class-Aware Fish Species Recognition Using Deep Learning for an Imbalanced Dataset

  • Simegnew Yihunie Alaba,
  • M M Nabi,
  • Chiranjibi Shah,
  • Jack Prior,
  • Matthew D. Campbell,
  • Farron Wallace,
  • John E. Ball and
  • Robert Moorhead

28 October 2022

Fish species recognition is crucial to identifying the abundance of fish species in a specific area, controlling production management, and monitoring the ecosystem, especially identifying the endangered species, which makes accurate fish species rec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,184 Views
14 Pages

8 February 2023

This research proposes an application of generative adversarial networks (GANs) to solve the class imbalance problem in the fault detection and classification study of a plasma etching process. Small changes in the equipment part condition of the pla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,954 Views
17 Pages

Real-time recognition of risky driving behavior and aggressive drivers is a promising research domain, thanks to powerful machine learning algorithms and the big data provided by in-vehicle and roadside sensors. However, since the occurrence of aggre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,097 Views
20 Pages

3 July 2025

Test-time adaptation (TTA) enhances model performance in target domains by dynamically adjusting parameters using unlabeled test data. However, existing TTA methods typically assume balanced data distributions, whereas real-world test data is often i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,846 Views
14 Pages

Detecting and classifying the plankton in situ to analyze the population diversity and abundance is fundamental for the understanding of marine planktonic ecosystem. However, the features of plankton are subtle, and the distribution of different plan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,425 Views
15 Pages

11 February 2025

Credit score models are essential tools for evaluating creditworthiness and mitigating financial risks. However, the imbalanced nature of multi-class credit score datasets poses significant challenges for traditional classification algorithms, leadin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
417 Views
32 Pages

12 November 2025

For classification problems, an imbalanced dataset can seriously reduce the learning efficiency in machine learning. In order to solve this problem, many scholars have proposed a series of methods mainly from the data and algorithm levels. At the dat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,490 Views
14 Pages

The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) presents complex cybersecurity challenges, particularly against Denial-of-Service (DoS) and spoofing attacks targeting the Controller Area Network (CAN) bus. This study leverages the CICIoV2024 dataset, comprising six d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,837 Views
14 Pages

12 February 2025

Multiclass classification in machine learning often faces significant challenges due to unbalanced datasets. This situation leads to biased predictions and reduced model performance. This research addresses this issue by proposing a novel approach th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
4,816 Views
18 Pages

1 July 2020

The world has witnessed the success of artificial intelligence deployment for smart healthcare applications. Various studies have suggested that the prevalence of voice disorders in the general population is greater than 10%. An automatic diagnosis f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,948 Views
26 Pages

27 June 2020

The training machine learning algorithm from an imbalanced data set is an inherently challenging task. It becomes more demanding with limited samples but with a massive number of features (high dimensionality). The high dimensional and imbalanced dat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
264 Views
31 Pages

26 January 2026

Object detection systems deployed in industrial environments are often constrained by limited annotation budgets, severe class imbalance, and heterogeneous visual conditions. Active learning (AL) aims to reduce labeling costs by selecting informative...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,955 Views
26 Pages

28 February 2023

Accurate diagnosis of breast cancer using automated algorithms continues to be a challenge in the literature. Although researchers have conducted a great deal of work to address this issue, no definitive answer has yet been discovered. This challenge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,218 Views
32 Pages

14 August 2025

The imbalanced classification problem is a key research in machine learning as the relevant algorithms tend to focus on the features and patterns of the majority class instead of insufficient learning of the minority class, resulting in unsatisfactor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,675 Views
23 Pages

14 February 2022

Class imbalance is a phenomenon of asymmetry that degrades the performance of traditional classification algorithms such as the Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Extreme Learning Machine (ELM). Various modifications of SVM and ELM have been proposed t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,462 Views
16 Pages

7 September 2021

Class imbalance, as a phenomenon of asymmetry, has an adverse effect on the performance of most machine learning and overlap is another important factor that affects the classification performance of machine learning algorithms. This paper deals with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,416 Views
17 Pages

2 February 2020

Data imbalance during the training of deep networks can cause the network to skip directly to learning minority classes. This paper presents a novel framework by which to train segmentation networks using imbalanced point cloud data. PointNet, an ear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
118 Citations
7,715 Views
28 Pages

Addressing Binary Classification over Class Imbalanced Clinical Datasets Using Computationally Intelligent Techniques

  • Vinod Kumar,
  • Gotam Singh Lalotra,
  • Ponnusamy Sasikala,
  • Dharmendra Singh Rajput,
  • Rajesh Kaluri,
  • Kuruva Lakshmanna,
  • Mohammad Shorfuzzaman,
  • Abdulmajeed Alsufyani and
  • Mueen Uddin

Nowadays, healthcare is the prime need of every human being in the world, and clinical datasets play an important role in developing an intelligent healthcare system for monitoring the health of people. Mostly, the real-world datasets are inherently...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,837 Views
19 Pages

4 October 2021

The number of sensing data are often imbalanced across data classes, for which oversampling on the minority class is an effective remedy. In this paper, an effective oversampling method called evolutionary Mahalanobis distance oversampling (EMDO) is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,677 Views
15 Pages

Density-Based Clustering to Deal with Highly Imbalanced Data in Multi-Class Problems

  • Julio Cesar Munguía Mondragón,
  • Eréndira Rendón Lara,
  • Roberto Alejo Eleuterio,
  • Everardo Efrén Granda Gutirrez and
  • Federico Del Razo López

21 September 2023

In machine learning and data mining applications, an imbalanced distribution of classes in the training dataset can drastically affect the performance of learning models. The class imbalance problem is frequently observed during classification tasks...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,320 Views
18 Pages

An Experimental Analysis of Drift Detection Methods on Multi-Class Imbalanced Data Streams

  • Abdul Sattar Palli,
  • Jafreezal Jaafar,
  • Heitor Murilo Gomes,
  • Manzoor Ahmed Hashmani and
  • Abdul Rehman Gilal

17 November 2022

The performance of machine learning models diminishes while predicting the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of the equipment or fault prediction due to the issue of concept drift. This issue is aggravated when the problem setting comprises multi-class imb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,484 Views
20 Pages

11 May 2023

The imbalance and concept drift problems in data streams become more complex in multi-class environment, and extreme imbalance and variation in class ratio may also exist. To tackle the above problems, Hybrid Sampling and Dynamic Weighted-based class...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,035 Views
15 Pages

14 December 2024

In high-dimensional machine learning tasks, supervised feature extraction is essential for improving model performance, with Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) being a common approach. However, LDA tends to deliver suboptimal performance when dealing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,253 Views
20 Pages

A Novel Double Ensemble Algorithm for the Classification of Multi-Class Imbalanced Hyperspectral Data

  • Daying Quan,
  • Wei Feng,
  • Gabriel Dauphin,
  • Xiaofeng Wang,
  • Wenjiang Huang and
  • Mengdao Xing

5 August 2022

The class imbalance problem has been reported to exist in remote sensing and hinders the classification performance of many machine learning algorithms. Several technologies, such as data sampling methods, feature selection-based methods, and ensembl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
377 Views
27 Pages

Hierarchical Self-Distillation with Attention for Class-Imbalanced Acoustic Event Classification in Elevators

  • Shengying Yang,
  • Lingyan Chou,
  • He Li,
  • Zhenyu Xu,
  • Boyang Feng and
  • Jingsheng Lei

15 January 2026

Acoustic-based anomaly detection in elevators is crucial for predictive maintenance and operational safety, yet it faces significant challenges in real-world settings, including pervasive multi-source acoustic interference within confined spaces and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
519 Views
28 Pages

Background/Objectives: Fetal health is essential in prenatal care, influencing both maternal and fetal outcomes. Cardiotocography (CTG) monitors uterine contractions and fetal heart rate, yet manual interpretation exhibits significant inter-examiner...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,459 Views
18 Pages

12 May 2021

As the key component to transmit power and torque, the fault diagnosis of rotating machinery is crucial to guarantee the reliable operation of mechanical equipment. Regrettably, sample class imbalance is a common phenomenon in industrial applications...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,247 Views
22 Pages

28 June 2021

Imbalance ensemble classification is one of the most essential and practical strategies for improving decision performance in data analysis. There is a growing body of literature about ensemble techniques for imbalance learning in recent years, the v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,319 Views
29 Pages

Learning distance metrics and distinguishing between samples from different classes are among the most important topics in machine learning. This article proposes a new distance metric learning approach tailored for highly imbalanced datasets. Imbala...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,694 Views
14 Pages

11 December 2023

Imbalanced data present a pervasive challenge in many real-world applications of statistical and machine learning, where the instances of one class significantly outnumber those of the other. This paper examines the impact of class imbalance on the p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,454 Views
16 Pages

31 March 2023

Class imbalance is a prevalent problem that not only reduces the performance of the machine learning techniques but also causes the lacking of the inherent complex characteristics of data. Though the researchers have proposed various ways to deal wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,997 Views
14 Pages

27 October 2023

Object detection is a task that performs position identification and label classification of objects in images or videos. The information obtained through this process plays an essential role in various tasks in the field of computer vision. In objec...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,361 Views
17 Pages

Learning to Classify DWDM Optical Channels from Tiny and Imbalanced Data

  • Paweł Cichosz,
  • Stanisław Kozdrowski and
  • Sławomir Sujecki

13 November 2021

Applying machine learning algorithms for assessing the transmission quality in optical networks is associated with substantial challenges. Datasets that could provide training instances tend to be small and heavily imbalanced. This requires applying...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,216 Views
22 Pages

30 September 2022

Deep learning-related technologies have achieved remarkable success in the field of intelligent fault diagnosis. Nevertheless, the traditional intelligent diagnosis methods are often based on the premise of sufficient annotation signals and balanced...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,252 Views
15 Pages

An Optimized Algorithm for Dangerous Driving Behavior Identification Based on Unbalanced Data

  • Shengxue Zhu,
  • Chongyi Li,
  • Kexin Fang,
  • Yichuan Peng,
  • Yuming Jiang and
  • Yajie Zou

It is of great significance to identify dangerous driving behavior by extracting vehicle trajectory through video monitoring to ensure highway traffic safety. At present, there is no suitable method to identify dangerous driving vehicles accurately b...

of 16