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Burst detection-based selective classifier resetting. (2021)
Journal Article
WARES, S., ISAACS, J. and ELYAN, E. 2021. Burst detection-based selective classifier resetting. Journal of information and knowledge management [online], 20(2), article 2150027. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219649221500271

Concept drift detection algorithms have historically been faithful to the aged architecture of forcefully resetting the base classifiers for each detected drift. This approach prevents underlying classifiers becoming outdated as the distribution of a... Read More about Burst detection-based selective classifier resetting..

On the class overlap problem in imbalanced data classification. (2020)
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VUTTIPITTAYAMONGKOL, P., ELYAN, E. and PETROVSKI, A. 2021. On the class overlap problem in imbalanced data classification. Knowledge-based systems [online], 212, article number 106631. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2020.106631

Class imbalance is an active research area in the machine learning community. However, existing and recent literature showed that class overlap had a higher negative impact on the performance of learning algorithms. This paper provides detailed criti... Read More about On the class overlap problem in imbalanced data classification..

Response to discussion on “Improved overlap-based undersampling for imbalanced dataset classification with application to epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease.” (2020)
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VUTTIPITTAYAMONGKOL, P. and ELYAN, E. 2020. Response to discussion on “Improved overlap-based undersampling for imbalanced dataset classification with application to epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease.”. International journal of neural systems [online], 30(9), article ID 2075002. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1142/s0129065720750027

In the paper 'Improved Overlap-Based Undersampling for Imbalanced Dataset Classification with Application to Epilepsy and Parkinson's Disease', the authors introduced two new methods that address the class overlap problem in imbalanced datasets. The... Read More about Response to discussion on “Improved overlap-based undersampling for imbalanced dataset classification with application to epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease.”.

CDSMOTE: class decomposition and synthetic minority class oversampling technique for imbalanced-data classification. (2020)
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ELYAN, E., MORENO-GARCIA, C.F. and JAYNE, C. 2021. CDSMOTE: class decomposition and synthetic minority class oversampling technique for imbalanced-data classification. Neural computing and applications [online], 33(7), pages 2839-2851. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-020-05130-z

Class-imbalanced datasets are common across several domains such as health, banking, security, and others. The dominance of majority class instances (negative class) often results in biased learning models, and therefore, classifying such datasets re... Read More about CDSMOTE: class decomposition and synthetic minority class oversampling technique for imbalanced-data classification..

Improved overlap-based undersampling for imbalanced dataset classification with application to epilepsy and Parkinson's disease. (2020)
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VUTTIPITTAYAMONGKOL, P. and ELYAN, E. 2020. Improved overlap-based undersampling for imbalanced dataset classification with application to epilepsy and Parkinson's disease. International journal of neural systems [online], 30(8), article ID 2050043. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129065720500434

Classification of imbalanced datasets has attracted substantial research interest over the past decades. Imbalanced datasets are common in several domains such as health, finance, security and others. A wide range of solutions to handle imbalanced da... Read More about Improved overlap-based undersampling for imbalanced dataset classification with application to epilepsy and Parkinson's disease..

Deep learning for symbols detection and classification in engineering drawings. (2020)
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ELYAN, E., JAMIESON, L. and ALI-GOMBE, A. 2020. Deep learning for symbols detection and classification in engineering drawings. Neural networks [online], 129, pages 91-102. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2020.05.025

Engineering drawings are commonly used in different industries such as Oil and Gas, construction, and other types of engineering. Digitising these drawings is becoming increasingly important. This is mainly due to the need to improve business practic... Read More about Deep learning for symbols detection and classification in engineering drawings..

The effects of measurement error and testing frequency on the fitness-fatigue model applied to resistance training: a simulation approach. (2019)
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STEPHENS HEMINGWAY, B.H., BURGESS, K.E., ELYAN, E. and SWINTON, P.A. 2020. The effects of measurement error and testing frequency on the fitness-fatigue model applied to resistance training: a simulation approach. International journal of sports science and coaching [online], 15(1), pages 60-71. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/1747954119887721

This study investigated the effects of measurement error and testing frequency on prediction accuracy of the standard fitness-fatigue model. A simulation-based approach was used to systematically assess measurement error and frequency inputs commonly... Read More about The effects of measurement error and testing frequency on the fitness-fatigue model applied to resistance training: a simulation approach..

Data stream mining: methods and challenges for handling concept drift. (2019)
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WARES, S., ISAACS, J. and ELYAN, E. 2019. Data stream mining: methods and challenges for handling concept drift. SN applied sciences [online], 1(11), article ID 1412. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-019-1433-0

Mining and analysing streaming data is crucial for many applications, and this area of research has gained extensive attention over the past decade. However, there are several inherent problems that continue to challenge the hardware and the state-of... Read More about Data stream mining: methods and challenges for handling concept drift..

Neighbourhood-based undersampling approach for handling imbalanced and overlapped data. (2019)
Journal Article
VUTTIPITTAYAMONGKOL, P. and ELYAN, E. 2020. Neighbourhood-based undersampling approach for handling imbalanced and overlapped data. Information sciences [online], 509, pages 47-70. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2019.08.062

Class imbalanced datasets are common across different domains including health, security, banking and others. A typical supervised learning algorithm tends to be biased towards the majority class when dealing with imbalanced datasets. The learning ta... Read More about Neighbourhood-based undersampling approach for handling imbalanced and overlapped data..

MFC-GAN: class-imbalanced dataset classification using multiple fake class generative adversarial network. (2019)
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ALI-GOMBE, A. and ELYAN, E. 2019. MFC-GAN: class-imbalanced dataset classification using multiple fake class generative adversarial network. Neurocomputing [online], 361, pages 212-221. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2019.06.043

Class-imbalanced datasets are common across different domains such as health, banking, security and others. With such datasets, the learning algorithms are often biased toward the majority class-instances. Data Augmentation is a common approach tha... Read More about MFC-GAN: class-imbalanced dataset classification using multiple fake class generative adversarial network..

Video tampering localisation using features learned from authentic content. (2019)
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JOHNSTON, P., ELYAN, E. and JAYNE, C. 2020. Video tampering localisation using features learned from authentic content. Neural computing and applications [online], 32(16): special issue on Real-world optimization problems and meta-heuristics and selected papers from the 19th Engineering applications of neural networks conference 2018 (EANN 2018), 3-5 September 2018, Bristol UK , pages 12243-12257. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-019-04272-z

Video tampering detection remains an open problem in the field of digital media forensics. As video manipulation techniques advance, it becomes easier for tamperers to create convincing forgeries that can fool human eyes. Deep learning methods have a... Read More about Video tampering localisation using features learned from authentic content..

A review of digital video tampering: from simple editing to full synthesis. (2019)
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JOHNSTON, P. and ELYAN, E. 2019. A review of digital video tampering: from simple editing to full synthesis. Digital investigation [online], 29, pages 67-81. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diin.2019.03.006

Video tampering methods have witnessed considerable progress in recent years. This is partly due to the rapid development of advanced deep learning methods, and also due to the large volume of video footage that is now in the public domain. Historica... Read More about A review of digital video tampering: from simple editing to full synthesis..

New trends on digitisation of complex engineering drawings. (2018)
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MORENO-GARCIA, C.F., ELYAN, E. and JAYNE, C. 2019. New trends on digitisation of complex engineering drawings. Neural computing and applications [online], 31(6): selected papers from the proceedings of the 18th Engineering applications of neural networks conference (EANN 2017), 25-27 August 2017, Athens, Greece, pages 1695-1712. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-018-3583-1

Engineering drawings are commonly used across different industries such as oil and gas, mechanical engineering and others. Digitising these drawings is becoming increasingly important. This is mainly due to the legacy of drawings and documents that m... Read More about New trends on digitisation of complex engineering drawings..

Deep imitation learning for 3D navigation tasks. (2017)
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HUSSEIN, A., ELYAN, E., GABER, M.M. and JAYNE, C. 2018. Deep imitation learning for 3D navigation tasks. Neural computing and applications [online], 29(7), pages 389-404. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-017-3241-z

Deep learning techniques have shown success in learning from raw high dimensional data in various applications. While deep reinforcement learning is recently gaining popularity as a method to train intelligent agents, utilizing deep learning in imita... Read More about Deep imitation learning for 3D navigation tasks..

The effect of person order on egress time: a simulation model of evacuation from a neolithic visitor attraction. (2017)
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STEWART, A., ELYAN, E., ISAACS, J., MCEWEN, L. and WILSON, L. 2017. The effect of person order on egress time: a simulation model of evacuation from a neolithic visitor attraction. Human factors [online], 59(8), pages 1222-1232. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0018720817729608

Objective: The aim of this study was to model the egress of visitors from a Neolithic visitor attraction. Background: Tourism attracts increasing numbers of elderly and mobility-impaired visitors to our built-environment heritage sites. Some such sit... Read More about The effect of person order on egress time: a simulation model of evacuation from a neolithic visitor attraction..

Imitation learning: a survey of learning methods. (2017)
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HUSSEIN, A., GABER, M.M., ELYAN, E. and JAYNE, C. 2017. Imitation learning: a survey of learning methods. ACM computing surveys [online], 50(2), article 21. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3054912

Imitation learning techniques aim to mimic human behavior in a given task. An agent (a learning machine) is trained to perform a task from demonstrations by learning a mapping between observations and actions. The idea of teaching by imitation has be... Read More about Imitation learning: a survey of learning methods..

A genetic algorithm approach to optimising random forests applied to class engineered data. (2016)
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ELYAN, E. and GABER, M.M. 2017. A genetic algorithm approach to optimising random forests applied to class engineered data. Information sciences [online], 384, pages 220-234. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2016.08.007

In numerous applications and especially in the life science domain, examples are labelled at a higher level of granularity. For example, binary classification is dominant in many of these datasets, with the positive class denoting the existence of a... Read More about A genetic algorithm approach to optimising random forests applied to class engineered data..

A fine-grained Random Forests using class decomposition: an application to medical diagnosis. (2015)
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ELYAN, E. and GABER, M.M. 2015. A fine-grained Random Forests using class decomposition: an application to medical diagnosis. Neural computing and applications [online], 27(8), pages 2279-2288. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-015-2064-z

Class decomposition describes the process of segmenting each class into a number of homogeneous subclasses. This can be naturally achieved through clustering. Utilising class decomposition can provide a number of benefits to supervised learning, espe... Read More about A fine-grained Random Forests using class decomposition: an application to medical diagnosis..

On the relationship between variational level set-based and SOM-based active contours. (2015)
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ABDELSAMEA, M.M., GNECCO, G., GABER, M.M. and ELYAN, E. 2015. On the relationship between variational level set-based and SOM-based active contours. Computational intelligence and neuroscience [online], 2015, article ID 109029. Available from:https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/109029

Most Active Contour Models (ACMs) deal with the image segmentation problem as a functional optimization problem, as they work on dividing an image into several regions by optimizing a suitable functional. Among ACMs, variational level set methods hav... Read More about On the relationship between variational level set-based and SOM-based active contours..