Summary of Hybrid Efficient Unsupervised Anomaly Detection For Early Pandemic Case Identification, by Ghazal Ghajari et al.
Hybrid Efficient Unsupervised Anomaly Detection for Early Pandemic Case Identification
by Ghazal Ghajari, Mithun Kumar PK, Fathi Amsaad
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed novel hybrid method combines distance and density measures for unsupervised anomaly detection, leveraging its applicability across various infectious diseases. The approach is particularly valuable in pandemic situations, as demonstrated during the COVID-19 crisis, where traditional supervised classification methods fall short due to limited data. The method achieves an average AUC of 77.43%, surpassing established unsupervised techniques like Isolation Forest and KNN. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper introduces a new way to find unusual patterns in data without needing labeled examples. It’s helpful for identifying early cases in epidemic management, especially when there’s not much data available. The method is tested using COVID-19 chest X-ray data and outperforms other methods by detecting anomalies accurately. This could help improve responses to epidemics. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Anomaly detection » Auc » Classification » Supervised » Unsupervised
