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Fall 2009

Heydari, Maysam

This thesis addresses the challenge of prognosis, in terms of survival prediction, for patients with Glioblastoma Multiforme brain tumors. Glioblastoma is the most malignant brain tumor, which has a median survival time of no more than a year. Accurate assessment of prognostic factors is critical...

Fall 2013

Wen, Junfeng

Many learning situations involve learning the conditional distribution $p(y|x)$ when the training data is drawn from the training distribution $p{tr}(x)$, even though it will later be used to predict for instances drawn from a different test distribution $p{te}(x)$. Most current approaches focus...

Spring 2017

Mirzazadeh, Farzaneh

Co-embedding is the process of mapping elements from multiple sets into a common latent space, which can be exploited to infer element-wise associations by considering the geometric proximity of their embeddings. Such an approach underlies the state of the art for link prediction, relation...

Spring 2017

Kumar, Luke N

Survival prediction is becoming a crucial part of treatment planning for most terminally ill patients. Many believe that genomic data will enable us to better estimate survival of these patients, which will lead to better, more personalized treatment options and patient care. As standard...

Fall 2015

Khan, Sheehan Veikko

Researchers conduct association studies to discover biomarkers in order to gain new biological insight on complex diseases and phenotypes. Although most researchers have intuitions about what defines a biomarker and how to assess the results of an association study, there is neither a formal...

Spring 2017

Vega Romero, Roberto I

One of the main challenges for the use of machine learning techniques in neuroimaging data is the small n, large p problem. Datasets usually contain only a few hundreds of instances (n), each of which is described using hundreds of thousands of features (p). In this dissertation, we explore the...

Spring 2018

Borle, Neil C

Patients with Type I Diabetes (T1D) must take insulin injections to prevent the serious long term effects of hyperglycemia – high blood glucose (BG). These patients must also be careful not to inject too much insulin because this could induce hypoglycemia (low BG), which can be fatal. Patients...

Spring 2021

Wen, Junfeng

This dissertation demonstrates how to utilize data collected previously from different sources to facilitate learning and inference for a target task. Learning from scratch for a target task or environment can be expensive and time-consuming. To address this problem, we make three contributions...

Spring 2015

Jin, Ping

A consumer's "reservation price" (RP) is the highest price that s/he is willing to pay for one unit of a specified product or service. It is an essential concept in many applications, e.g., personalized pricing, auction and negotiation. While consumers will not volunteer their RPs, we may be able...