Summary of Transductive Confidence Machine and Its Application to Medical Data Sets, by David Lindsay
Transductive Confidence Machine and its application to Medical Data Sets
by David Lindsay
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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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 Transductive Confidence Machine Nearest Neighbours (TCMNN) algorithm and user interface were developed for medical datasets, exploring various parameter settings, Minkowski metrics, polynomial kernels, nearest neighbour counts, and result significance markers. The TCMNN algorithm was compared to SVM implementations and neural networks, offering insights into the performance of transductive algorithms in medical applications. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The researchers created a new machine learning method called Transductive Confidence Machine Nearest Neighbours (TCMNN) and designed a simple user interface to go with it. They tested different settings for the TCMNN algorithm on medical data sets, using different methods to measure distance between points and different types of mathematical relationships. They also looked at how changing the number of nearest neighbours affects the results and whether marking certain answers as significant changes things. The researchers compared their new method to two other approaches: one that uses support vector machines (SVM) and another that uses neural networks. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Machine learning
