In a Quest for Suitable Similarity Measures to Compare Experience-Based Evaluations

: Missing attribute values in medical datasets are one of the most common problems faced when mining medical datasets. Estimation of missing values is a major challenging task in pre-processing of datasets. Any wrong estimate of missing attribute values can lead to inefficient and improper classification thus resulting in lower classifier accuracies. Similarity measures play a key role during the imputation process. The use of an appropriate and better similarity measure can help to achieve better imputation and improved classification accuracies. This paper proposes a novel imputation measure for finding similarity between missing and non-missing instances in medical datasets. Experiments are carried by applying both the proposed imputation technique and popular benchmark existing imputation techniques. Classification is carried using KNN, J48, SMO and RBFN classifiers. Experiment analysis proved that after imputation of medical records using proposed imputation technique, the resulting classification accuracies reported by the classifiers KNN, J48 and SMO have improved when compared to other existing benchmark imputation techniques.

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A novel q-rung orthopair fuzzy TODIM approach for multi-criteria group decision making based on Shapley value and relative entropy

Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems ◽

10.3233/jifs-191374 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 40 (1) ◽

pp. 235-250

Author(s):

Liuxin Chen ◽

Nanfang Luo ◽

Xiaoling Gou

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Relative Entropy ◽

Group Decision Making ◽

Shapley Value ◽

Group Decision ◽

Similarity Measures ◽

Entropy Measure ◽

Shapley Values ◽

Interactive Relationship ◽

The Difference

In the real multi-criteria group decision making (MCGDM) problems, there will be an interactive relationship among different decision makers (DMs). To identify the overall influence, we define the Shapley value as the DM’s weight. Entropy is a measure which makes it better than similarity measures to recognize a group decision making problem. Since we propose a relative entropy to measure the difference between two systems, which improves the accuracy of the distance measure.In this paper, a MCGDM approach named as TODIM is presented under q-rung orthopair fuzzy information.The proposed TODIM approach is developed for correlative MCGDM problems, in which the weights of the DMs are calculated in terms of Shapley values and the dominance matrices are evaluated based on relative entropy measure with q-rung orthopair fuzzy information.Furthermore, the efficacy of the proposed Gq-ROFWA operator and the novel TODIM is demonstrated through a selection problem of modern enterprises risk investment. A comparative analysis with existing methods is presented to validate the efficiency of the approach.

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Marine Oil Slick Detection Based on Multi-Polarimetric Features Matching Method Using Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Data

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s19235176 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (23) ◽

pp. 5176

Author(s):

Guannan Li ◽

Ying Li ◽

Bingxin Liu ◽

Peng Wu ◽

Chen Chen

Keyword(s):

Computational Complexity ◽

Synthetic Aperture Radar ◽

Oil Spill ◽

Similarity Measures ◽

Synthetic Aperture ◽

Matching Method ◽

Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar ◽

Spectral Similarity ◽

Oil Spill Detection ◽

Aperture Radar

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar is an important tool in the effective detection of marine oil spills. In this study, two cases of Radarsat-2 Fine mode quad-polarimetric synthetic aperture radar datasets are exploited to detect a well-known oil seep area that collected over the Gulf of Mexico using the same research area, sensor, and time. A novel oil spill detection scheme based on a multi-polarimetric features model matching method using spectral pan-similarity measure (SPM) is proposed. A multi-polarimetric features curve is generated based on optimal polarimetric features selected using Jeffreys–Matusita distance considering its ability to discriminate between thick and thin oil slicks and seawater. The SPM is used to search for and match homogeneous unlabeled pixels and assign them to a class with the highest similarity to their spectral vector size, spectral curve shape, and spectral information content. The superiority of the SPM for oil spill detection compared to traditional spectral similarity measures is demonstrated for the first time based on accuracy assessments and computational complexity analysis by comparing with four traditional spectral similarity measures, random forest (RF), support vector machine (SVM), and decision tree (DT). Experiment results indicate that the proposed method has better oil spill detection capability, with a higher average accuracy and kappa coefficient (1.5–7.9% and 1–25% higher, respectively) than the four traditional spectral similarity measures under the same computational complexity operations. Furthermore, in most cases, the proposed method produces valuable and acceptable results that are better than the RF, SVM, and DT in terms of accuracy and computational complexity.

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Interval-Valued $$E_N$$ -functions and Similarity Measures

New Trends in Aggregation Theory - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-19494-9_13 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 140-150

Author(s):

Zdenko Takáč ◽

Humberto Bustince ◽

Javier Fernandez ◽

Graçaliz Dimuro ◽

Tiago Asmus ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Similarity Measures ◽

Interval Valued

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Content-Based Estimation of Brain MRI Tilt in Three Orthogonal Directions

Journal of Digital Imaging ◽

10.1007/s10278-020-00400-7 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Pooja Prabhu ◽

A. K. Karunakar ◽

Sanjib Sinha ◽

N. Mariyappa ◽

G. K. Bhargava ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Brain Mri ◽

Similarity Measures ◽

Principal Component ◽

Brain Anatomy ◽

Morphological Operations ◽

Mr Images ◽

Tilt Correction ◽

Brain Mr Images ◽

The Brain

AbstractIn a general scenario, the brain images acquired from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may experience tilt, distorting brain MR images. The tilt experienced by the brain MR images may result in misalignment during image registration for medical applications. Manually correcting (or estimating) the tilt on a large scale is time-consuming, expensive, and needs brain anatomy expertise. Thus, there is a need for an automatic way of performing tilt correction in three orthogonal directions (X, Y, Z). The proposed work aims to correct the tilt automatically by measuring the pitch angle, yaw angle, and roll angle in X-axis, Z-axis, and Y-axis, respectively. For correction of the tilt around the Z-axis (pointing to the superior direction), image processing techniques, principal component analysis, and similarity measures are used. Also, for correction of the tilt around the X-axis (pointing to the right direction), morphological operations, and tilt correction around the Y-axis (pointing to the anterior direction), orthogonal regression is used. The proposed approach was applied to adjust the tilt observed in the T1- and T2-weighted MR images. The simulation study with the proposed algorithm yielded an error of 0.40 ± 0.09°, and it outperformed the other existing studies. The tilt angle (in degrees) obtained is ranged from 6.2 ± 3.94, 2.35 ± 2.61, and 5 ± 4.36 in X-, Z-, and Y-directions, respectively, by using the proposed algorithm. The proposed work corrects the tilt more accurately and robustly when compared with existing studies.

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A comparative analysis of trajectory similarity measures

GIScience & Remote Sensing ◽

10.1080/15481603.2021.1908927 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-27

Author(s):

Yaguang Tao ◽

Alan Both ◽

Rodrigo I. Silveira ◽

Kevin Buchin ◽

Stef Sijben ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

Similarity Measures ◽

Trajectory Similarity

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