Anomaly detection identifies unusual malaria transmission patterns in Ghana.
problem Identifying atypical malaria transmission patterns in Ghana's spatiotemporal surveillance data.
method Consensus-based anomaly detection framework applied to monthly malaria surveillance data.
result High-burden areas are not necessarily those with the most frequent anomalous transmission.
Improves prediction accuracy for aggregated outputs using Gaussian processes and variational learning.
problem Difficulties in generalizing to new inputs when outputs are aggregated at a coarser level than inputs.
method Variational learning with a model of output aggregation and Gaussian processes, proposing new bounds and approximations.
result Improved prediction accuracy and scalability to large datasets, explicitly accounting for uncertainty.
Kernel interpolation speeds up online Gaussian process updates.
problem Efficiently updating Gaussian process posteriors with new data.
method Structured kernel interpolation for constant-time updates.
result Exact inference maintained with constant-time updates.
We present the first fully variational Bayesian inference scheme for continuous Gaussian-process-modulated Poisson processes. Such point processes are used in a variety of domains, including neuroscience, geo-statistics and astronomy, but their use is hindered by the computational cost of existing inference schemes. Ou…
Automated malaria diagnosis from field slides achieves accurate results.
problem Challenges in analyzing field-prepared thin blood film microscopy images.
method Fully automated framework using machine learning, including CNNs trained on diverse field samples.
result Results are close to sufficient for drug resistance monitoring and clinical use-cases.
Mobile apps and machine learning improve malaria prevention and treatment.
problem High malaria cases and deaths in low-income countries.
method Adaptive interventions using mobile health apps and machine learning.
result Increased malaria testing, adherence, and provider skills.
LEMPS predicts malaria prevalence with high accuracy in Ibadan, West Africa.
problem Inadequate malaria prediction systems in highly endemic countries.
method Developed and validated a Locality-specific Elastic-Net based Malaria Prediction System (LEMPS) using 22-years of prospective data.
result LEMPS achieves good generalization performance, predicting monthly prevalence with MAE<=6x10-2 and MSE<=7x10-3.
Mobile phones detect mosquitoes for malaria research.
problem Manual mosquito detection is inefficient and costly.
method Low-cost smartphone app for automated mosquito detection.
result Mobile system achieves excellent multi-species detection.
Model diagnoses coinfection between malaria and arbovirus in Kedougou.
problem Diagnosing coinfection between malaria and arbovirus in tropical regions.
method Multinomial logistic model using patient data from 2009-2013.
result Derived coinfection probabilities and identified disease-specific symptoms.
Crowd-sourced mosquito audio dataset for malaria research.
problem Understanding mosquito locations for malaria reduction.
method Release of a large mosquito audio dataset with labels from contributors.
result Demonstrated the feasibility of training a CNN on mosquito audio data.
Deep neural network improves malaria detection from red blood cells.
problem Improving malaria detection from red blood cell images.
method End-to-end deep learning approach using convolutional neural networks.
result Best model achieves 97.77% accuracy.
Deep RL agent predicts malaria likelihood from household surveys.
problem Predicting malaria likelihood from household surveys.
method Deep Reinforcement Learning (DQN) agent learns to ask adaptive questions.
result 80% accuracy with 2.5 questions, vs. 6 questions for supervised learning.
Automates malaria diagnosis with a motorized microscope and clustering algorithm.
problem Late or inaccurate diagnosis of malaria leading to high mortality.
method Developed a motorized microscope and a patch-based unsupervised clustering algorithm.
result The method provides better robustness against different imaging conditions and comparable accuracy to supervised systems.
Researchers tackle malaria control as a reinforcement learning problem with limited data.
problem Learning optimal malaria control policies with scarce data.
method Applied Genetic Algorithm, Bayesian Optimization, and Q-learning with sequence breaking.
result Q-Learning with sequence breaking achieved 7th place in the KDD Cup challenge.
A scalable online method for Gaussian processes that improves decision-making in various applications.
problem Scalability issues with Gaussian processes for online decision-making.
method Online variational conditioning (OVC) for SVGPs.
result OVC enables efficient online learning and decision-making with SVGPs.
Paper introduces a method to interpret complex epidemiology simulators.
problem Difficult interpretation of stochastic epidemiology simulators.
method Hijacking internal random number generators with probabilistic programming.
result Restores trust between policymakers and simulators by providing insights.
New model maps malaria prevalence across Kenya's changing administrative boundaries.
problem Mapping disease prevalence with changing administrative boundaries.
method Combines deep learning and MCMC with aggVAE for disease mapping.
result Solves the change-of-support problem in disease surveillance.
This paper deals with prediction of anopheles number, the main vector of malaria risk, using environmental and climate variables. The variables selection is based on an automatic machine learning method using regression trees, and random forests combined with stratified two levels cross validation. The minimum threshol…
The paper formalizes incidence tensors and their decomposition for geometric deep learning.
problem Representing structured data like graphs and simplicial complexes.
method Formalizes incidence tensors, analyzes their structure, and presents equivariant networks.
result Incidence tensors decompose into invariant subsets, leading to efficient linear map implementations.
Model predicts traffic speed using urban incidents.
problem Accurately predicting traffic speed in urban areas.
method Deep Incident-Aware Graph Convolutional Network (DIGC-Net).
result Model outperforms competing benchmarks in traffic speed prediction.
Model predicts traffic incident duration and identifies key features.
problem Predict traffic incident duration and identify critical features.
method Multi-task learning framework with sparsity optimization and ADMM algorithm.
result Model predicts incident duration and identifies key features effectively.
Predicts arterial road incident duration with extreme gradient boosting.
problem Predicting incident duration on arterial roads, especially with limited data.
method Bi-level framework combining classification and regression models.
result Extreme gradient boosting outperformed other models by 53%.
This paper aims to optimize incident-specific cyber insurance design.
problem Complexity in determining optimal risk retention and transfer.
method Economic foundation for incident-specific cyber insurance with Pareto optimality.
result Illustrates feasibility of designing incident-specific indemnities for both parties.
Crowdsourced data helps detect incidents faster, balancing accuracy and practicality.
problem Detecting incidents from crowdsourced data is challenging due to noise and uncertainty.
method CROME (Crowdsourced Multi-objective Event Detection) uses CNN and Pareto optimization.
result The approach outperforms existing methods in incident detection and practicality.
Study uses vehicle trajectory data to predict traffic incidents on highways.
problem Early detection of traffic incidents to reduce secondary crashes.
method Machine learning algorithms (Logistic Regression, Random Forest, Extreme Gradient Boost, Artificial Neural Network) applied to vehicle trajectory data.
result Random Forest model performs best for incident prediction.
HYVINT generates hypergraphs with intensity-driven incidence formation and variational learning.
problem Challenges in generating hypergraphs with mechanistic interpretation and limited latent space.
method HYVINT uses intensity-driven incidence formation and a lower-bound variational estimator for latent representations.
result HYVINT achieves strong fidelity and novelty on synthetic and real-world hypergraphs.
Study shows data breaches cause significant financial losses for firms, especially in health sector.
problem Understanding the economic impact of cyber incidents on listed firms.
method Event study using abnormal returns over 2012-2022, adjusting for event-induced variance and residual cross-correlation.
result Data breaches cause significant financial losses for firms, especially in health sector.
In this study, we propose an automatic learning method for variables selection based on Lasso in epidemiology context. One of the aim of this approach is to overcome the pretreatment of experts in medicine and epidemiology on collected data. These pretreatment consist in recoding some variables and to choose some inter…
Automated suggestions help train technicians diagnose incidents faster.
problem Manual and time-consuming incident diagnosis by train maintenance technicians.
method Developed and deployed a learning machine to suggest diagnostics to technicians.
result The model refines its accuracy through feedback from experts and uses feature engineering.
The paper investigates deep neural networks for medical imaging applications, providing interpretable results.
problem Uninterpretable decisions made by deep neural networks in medical imaging applications.
method Investigation of deep neural networks for malaria, diabetic retinopathy, brain tumor, and tuberculosis detection in various imaging modalities. Visualization of class activation mappings provided.
result Visualization of class activation mappings enhances understanding of deep neural networks and aids doctors in decision-making.
Investigates proving geometric theorems over complex and real numbers using tilings.
problem Proving incidence theorems over C and R using the master theorem.
method Formalizes tiling proofs and introduces a hierarchy of theorems based on topological spaces.
result Identifies which theorems can or cannot be proved over C and R.
New method disentangles hidden data structures using HSIC and supervision.
problem Tackles the challenge of interpreting high-dimensional data.
method Supervised Independent Subspace Principal Component Analysis (sisPCA) using HSIC.
result Identifies and separates hidden data structures effectively.
This paper proposes a real-time signal plan recommendation system for traffic incidents.
problem Limited effectiveness of traffic incident management due to late response and workload.
method Decomposes recommendation task into real-time traffic prediction and plan association, learning from historical data and metric learning.
result Precision score of 96.75% and recall of 87.5% on testing plan, with 22.5 minutes lead time ahead of Waze alerts.
We characterize the boundary at infinity of a complex hyperbolic space as a compact Ptolemy space that satisfies four incidence axioms.
The paper studies how points and lines can move while preserving incidences.
problem Understanding how point-line configurations can move while maintaining their geometric relationships.
method Developed a projective rigidity matrix to analyze the infinitesimal motions and dependencies of point-line configurations.
result The symmetry-adapted projective rigidity matrix provides a more detailed analysis of symmetric configurations and their motions.
Extends diffusion models to handle exponential family distributions for inverse problems.
problem Intractability of likelihood score for non-Gaussian observations.
method Evidence trick to approximate likelihood score for exponential family distributions.
result Effective Bayesian inference on complex Poisson processes and malaria prevalence prediction.
Develops regression trees for estimating cumulative incidence curves in competing risks.
problem Estimating cumulative incidence functions in competing risks settings.
method Uses augmented estimators of the Brier score risk to build and prune regression trees.
result Demonstrates the utility of the proposed methods through simulation studies and real data.
The paper explains the topological origin of the distinction between incidence theorems over division rings and fields.
problem Understanding the distinction between incidence theorems over division rings and fields.
method Extending the surface-graph approach to noncommutative settings, the paper analyzes the topological properties of graphs embedded on surfaces of different genera.
result Theorems associated with graphs on the sphere hold over any division ring, while those on surfaces of positive genus typically hold only if the ground ring is a field.
In a recent work of Ayaka Shimizu[5], she defined an operation named region crossing change on link diagrams, and showed that region crossing change is an unknotting operation for knot diagrams. In this paper, we prove that region crossing change on a 2-component link diagram is an unknotting operation if and only…
Enhances cyber risk assessment with entity-specific features.
problem Lack of high-quality public cyber incident data.
method Develops an InsurTech framework to enrich cyber incident data with entity-specific attributes and implements machine learning models.
result InsurTech features improve prediction robustness and provide customized risk profiles.
Study finds companies react negatively to material cybersecurity incident disclosures.
problem Understanding market reactions to cybersecurity incidents.
method Examined daily stock price movements of companies disclosing material cybersecurity incidents.
result Companies tend to experience negative price reactions after disclosing material cybersecurity incidents.
In this paper we continue the study of generic properties of the Novikov complex, began in the work "The incidence coefficients in the Novikov complex are generically rational functions" ( dg-ga/9603006). For a Morse map f:M→S1 there is a refined version of Novikov complex, defined over the Novikov completion of …
An unsupervised method clusters patient incident reports for content analysis.
problem Lack of methods to extract interpretable content from electronic healthcare records.
method Combines text-embedding with paragraph vectors and graph-theoretical multiscale community detection.
result Extracts high-intrinsic-consistency groups of patient incident reports.
Deep learning method identifies precursors to aviation safety incidents.
problem Mining correlated events in multi-dimensional time series data for aviation safety.
method Combining multiple-instance learning and deep recurrent neural networks.
result The proposed algorithm identifies precursors to safety incidents more effectively than baseline models.
New model detects crime linkages from text, time, and space.
problem Detecting crime linkages from limited information.
method Spatio-temporal-textual Hawkes processes with text embeddings.
result Joint modeling of space, time, and text enhances crime linkage detection.
QTIP improves traffic prediction in sudden disruptions.
problem Traffic models fail during sudden disruptions.
method Simulation-based framework for real-time adaptation.
result QTIP improves traffic prediction in critical minutes of incidents.
Characterizes groups with specific boundary properties.
problem Groups with Schottky set boundaries.
method Study relatively hyperbolic group pairs with Schottky boundaries.
result Groups with boundaries where Schottky sets have 1 or 2 component incidence graphs.
Finite rigid sets found in surface curve complexes.
problem Finding rigid sets in surface curve complexes.
method Incidence-preserving maps to find rigid subcomplexes.
result Finite rigid subcomplexes identified in surface curve complexes.