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Explain the world – Using causality to facilitate better rules for fuzzy systems (2024)
Journal Article
Zhang, T., Wagner, C., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2024). Explain the world – Using causality to facilitate better rules for fuzzy systems. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2024.3457962

The rules of a rule-based system provide explanations for its behaviour by revealing the relationships between the variables captured. However, ideally, we have AI systems which go beyond explainable AI (XAI), that is, systems which not only explain... Read More about Explain the world – Using causality to facilitate better rules for fuzzy systems.

A pattern-based algorithm with fuzzy logic bin selector for online bin packing problem (2024)
Journal Article
Lin, B., Li, J., Cui, T., Jin, H., Bai, R., Qu, R., & Garibaldi, J. (2024). A pattern-based algorithm with fuzzy logic bin selector for online bin packing problem. Expert Systems with Applications, 249, Article 123515. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2024.123515

The online bin packing problem is a well-known optimization challenge that finds application in a wide range of real-world scenarios. In the paper, we propose a novel algorithm called FuzzyPatternPack(FPP), which leverages fuzzy inference and pattern... Read More about A pattern-based algorithm with fuzzy logic bin selector for online bin packing problem.

Boundary-wise loss for medical image segmentation based on fuzzy rough sets (2024)
Journal Article
Lin, Q., Chen, X., Chen, C., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2024). Boundary-wise loss for medical image segmentation based on fuzzy rough sets. Information Sciences, 661, Article 120183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2024.120183

The loss function plays an important role in deep learning models as it determines the model convergence behavior and performance. In semantic segmentation, many methods utilize pixel-wise (e.g. cross-entropy) and region-wise (e.g. dice) losses while... Read More about Boundary-wise loss for medical image segmentation based on fuzzy rough sets.

Towards Causal Fuzzy System Rules Using Causal Direction (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhang, T., Ying, J., Wagner, C., & Garibaldi, J. (2023, August). Towards Causal Fuzzy System Rules Using Causal Direction. Presented at 2023 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ), Incheon, Korea

Generating (fuzzy) rule bases from data can provide a rapid pathway to constructing (fuzzy) systems. However, direct rule generation approaches tend to generate very large numbers of rules. One reason for this is that such techniques are not designed... Read More about Towards Causal Fuzzy System Rules Using Causal Direction.

A Novel Quality Control Algorithm for Medical Image Segmentation Based on Fuzzy Uncertainty (2022)
Journal Article
Lin, Q., Chen, X., Chen, C., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2022). A Novel Quality Control Algorithm for Medical Image Segmentation Based on Fuzzy Uncertainty. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 31(8), 2532-2544. https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2022.3228332

Deep learning methods have achieved an excellent performance in medical image segmentation. However, the practical application of deep learning-based segmentation models is limited in clinical settings due to the lack of reliable information about th... Read More about A Novel Quality Control Algorithm for Medical Image Segmentation Based on Fuzzy Uncertainty.

Dynamic early warning scores for predicting clinical deterioration in patients with respiratory disease (2022)
Journal Article
Gonem, S., Taylor, A., Figueredo, G., Forster, S., Quinlan, P., Garibaldi, J. M., McKeever, T. M., & Shaw, D. (2022). Dynamic early warning scores for predicting clinical deterioration in patients with respiratory disease. Respiratory Research, 23, Article 203. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12931-022-02130-6

Background: The National Early Warning Score-2 (NEWS-2) is used to detect patient deterioration in UK hospitals but fails to take account of the detailed granularity or temporal trends in clinical observations. We used data-driven methods to develop... Read More about Dynamic early warning scores for predicting clinical deterioration in patients with respiratory disease.

Counterfactual rule generation for fuzzy rule-based classification systems (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhang, T., Wagner, C., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2022, July). Counterfactual rule generation for fuzzy rule-based classification systems. Presented at 2022 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), Padua, Italy

EXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is of in-creasing importance as researchers and practitioners seek better transparency and verifiability of AI systems. Mamdani fuzzy systems can provide explanations based on their linguistic rules, and thus... Read More about Counterfactual rule generation for fuzzy rule-based classification systems.

LMISA: A Lightweight Multi-modality Image Segmentation Network via Domain Adaptation using Gradient Magnitude and Shape Constraint (2022)
Journal Article
Jafari, M., Francis, S., Garibaldi, J. M., & Chen, X. (2022). LMISA: A Lightweight Multi-modality Image Segmentation Network via Domain Adaptation using Gradient Magnitude and Shape Constraint. Medical Image Analysis, 81, Article 102536. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2022.102536

In medical image segmentation, supervised machine learning models trained using one image modality (e.g. computed tomography (CT)) are often prone to failure when applied to another image modality (e.g. magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)) even for the... Read More about LMISA: A Lightweight Multi-modality Image Segmentation Network via Domain Adaptation using Gradient Magnitude and Shape Constraint.

Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic about sample access for research in the UK (2022)
Journal Article
Mai Sims, J., Lawrence, E., Glazer, K., Gander, A., Fuller, B., Garibaldi, J., …Quinlan, P. R. (2022). Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic about sample access for research in the UK. BMJ Open, 12(4), Article e047309. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-047309

Objective Annotated clinical samples taken from patients are a foundation of translational medical research and give mechanistic insight into drug trials. Prior research by the Tissue Directory and Coordination Centre (TDCC) indicated that researcher... Read More about Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic about sample access for research in the UK.

FuzzyDCNN: Incorporating Fuzzy Integral Layers to Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Segmentation (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lin, Q., Chen, X., Chen, C., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2021). FuzzyDCNN: Incorporating Fuzzy Integral Layers to Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Segmentation. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/fuzz45933.2021.9494456

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved the state-of-the-art performance in many application areas, due to the capability of automatically extracting and aggregating spatial and channel-wise features from images. Most recent studies have c... Read More about FuzzyDCNN: Incorporating Fuzzy Integral Layers to Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Segmentation.

An Extension of the FuzzyR Toolbox for Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chen, C., Zhao, Y., Wagner, C., Pekaslan, D., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2021). An Extension of the FuzzyR Toolbox for Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/fuzz45933.2021.9494472

Recent years have seen a surge in interest in non-singleton fuzzy systems. These systems enable the direct modelling of uncertainty affecting systems' inputs using the fuzzification stage. Moreover, recent work has shown how different composition app... Read More about An Extension of the FuzzyR Toolbox for Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems.

Designing the Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems Via FuzzyR Toolbox (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Razak, T. R., Chen, C., Garibaldi, J. M., & Wagner, C. (2021). Designing the Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems Via FuzzyR Toolbox. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ45933.2021.9494485

The use of Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems (HFS) has been well acknowledged as a good approach in reducing the complexity and improving the interpretability of fuzzy logic systems (FLS). Over the past years, many fuzzy logic toolkits have been made availa... Read More about Designing the Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems Via FuzzyR Toolbox.

Machine learning can predict disease manifestations and outcomes in lymphangioleiomyomatosis (2020)
Journal Article
Chernbumroong, S., Johnson, J., Gupta, N., Miller, S., Mccormack, F. X., Garibaldi, J. M., & Johnson, S. R. (2021). Machine learning can predict disease manifestations and outcomes in lymphangioleiomyomatosis. European Respiratory Journal, 57(6), Article 2003036. https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.03036-2020

Background: Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is a rare multisystem disease with variable clinical manifestations and differing rates of progression that make management decisions and giving prognostic advice difficult. We used machine learning to ident... Read More about Machine learning can predict disease manifestations and outcomes in lymphangioleiomyomatosis.

A Fast Inference and Type-Reduction Process for Constrained Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Systems (2020)
Journal Article
D'Alterio, P., Garibaldi, J. M., John, R. I., & Wagner, C. (2021). A Fast Inference and Type-Reduction Process for Constrained Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Systems. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 29(11), 3323-3333. https://doi.org/10.1109/TFUZZ.2020.3018379

Constrained interval type-2 (CIT2) fuzzy sets have been introduced to preserve interpretability when moving from type-1 to interval type-2 (IT2) membership functions. Although they can be used to produce type-2 fuzzy systems with enhanced explainabil... Read More about A Fast Inference and Type-Reduction Process for Constrained Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Systems.

End-to-End Fovea Localisation in Colour Fundus Images with a Hierarchical Deep Regression Network (2020)
Journal Article
Xie, R., Liu, J., Cao, R., Qiu, C. S., Duan, J., Garibaldi, J., & Qiu, G. (2020). End-to-End Fovea Localisation in Colour Fundus Images with a Hierarchical Deep Regression Network. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 40(1), 116-128. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2020.3023254

Accurately locating the fovea is a prerequisite for developing computer aided diagnosis (CAD) of retinal diseases. In colour fundus images of the retina, the fovea is a fuzzy region lacking prominent visual features and this makes it difficult to dir... Read More about End-to-End Fovea Localisation in Colour Fundus Images with a Hierarchical Deep Regression Network.

FuzzyR: An Extended Fuzzy Logic Toolbox for the R Programming Language (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chen, C., Razak, T. R., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2020). FuzzyR: An Extended Fuzzy Logic Toolbox for the R Programming Language. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) (1-8). https://doi.org/10.1109/fuzz48607.2020.9177780

This paper presents an R package FuzzyR which is an extended fuzzy logic toolbox for the R programming language. FuzzyR is a continuation of the previous Fuzzy R toolboxes such as FuzzyToolkitUoN. Whilst keeping existing functionalities of the previo... Read More about FuzzyR: An Extended Fuzzy Logic Toolbox for the R Programming Language.

Juzzy Constrained: Software for Constrained Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Sets and Systems in Java (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
D'Alterio, P., Garibaldi, J. M., John, R. I., & Wagner, C. (2020). Juzzy Constrained: Software for Constrained Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Sets and Systems in Java. In Proceedings of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI) 2020

Constrained interval type-2 (CIT2) fuzzy sets are a class of type-2 fuzzy sets that has been recently proposed as a way to extend type-1 membership functions to interval type-2 (IT2) while keeping a semantic connection between the IT2 fuzzy set and t... Read More about Juzzy Constrained: Software for Constrained Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Sets and Systems in Java.

Constrained Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Classification Systems for Explainable AI (XAI) (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
D'Alterio, P., Garibaldi, J. M., & John, R. I. (2020). Constrained Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Classification Systems for Explainable AI (XAI). In Proceedings of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI) 2020

In recent year, there has been a growing need for intelligent systems that not only are able to provide reliable classifications but can also produce explanations for the decisions they make. The demand for increased explainability has led to the eme... Read More about Constrained Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Classification Systems for Explainable AI (XAI).

Performance and Interpretability in Fuzzy Logic Systems – can we have both? (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pekaslan, D., Chen, C., Wagner, C., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2020). Performance and Interpretability in Fuzzy Logic Systems – can we have both?.

Fuzzy Logic Systems can provide a good level of interpretability and may provide a key building block as part of a growing interest in explainable AI. In practice, the level of interpretability of a given fuzzy logic system is dependent on how well i... Read More about Performance and Interpretability in Fuzzy Logic Systems – can we have both?.

A Comprehensive Study of the Efficiency of Type-Reduction Algorithms (2020)
Journal Article
Chen, C., Wu, D., Garibaldi, J. M., John, R. I., Twycross, J., & Mendel, J. M. (2021). A Comprehensive Study of the Efficiency of Type-Reduction Algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 29(6), 1556 -1566. https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2020.2981002

Improving the efficiency of type-reduction algorithms continues to attract research interest. Recently, there have been some new type-reduction approaches claiming that they are more efficient than the well-known algorithms such as the enhanced Karni... Read More about A Comprehensive Study of the Efficiency of Type-Reduction Algorithms.