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FU-Net: Multi-class Image Segmentation Using Feedback Weighted U-Net (2019)
Book Chapter
Jafari, M., Li, R., Xing, Y., Auer, D., Francis, S., Garibaldi, J., & Chen, X. (2019). FU-Net: Multi-class Image Segmentation Using Feedback Weighted U-Net. In Image and Graphics: 10th International Conference, ICIG 2019, Beijing, China, August 23–25, 2019, Proceedings, Part II (529-537). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34110-7_44

© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. In this paper, we present a generic deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) for multi-class image segmentation. It is based on a well-established supervised end-to-end DCNN model, known as U-net. U-net is firs... Read More about FU-Net: Multi-class Image Segmentation Using Feedback Weighted U-Net.

A Measure of Structural Complexity of Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems Adapted from Software Engineering (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Razak, T. R., Garibaldi, J. M., & Wagner, C. (2019). A Measure of Structural Complexity of Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems Adapted from Software Engineering. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) ( 1-7). https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2019.8859011

Hierarchical fuzzy systems (HFSs) have been seen as an effective approach to reduce the complexity of fuzzy logic systems (FLSs), largely as a result of reducing the number of rules. However, it is not clear completely how complexity of HFSs can be m... Read More about A Measure of Structural Complexity of Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems Adapted from Software Engineering.

Deep Fuzzy Tree for Large-Scale Hierarchical Visual Classification (2019)
Journal Article
Wang, Y., Hu, Q., Zhu, P., Li, L., Lu, B., Garibaldi, J. M., & Li, X. (2020). Deep Fuzzy Tree for Large-Scale Hierarchical Visual Classification. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 28(7), 1395-1406. https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2019.2936801

Deep learning models often use a flat softmax layer to classify samples after feature extraction in visual classification tasks. However, it is hard to make a single decision of finding the true label from massive classes. In this scenario, hierarchi... Read More about Deep Fuzzy Tree for Large-Scale Hierarchical Visual Classification.

ADONiS - Adaptive Online Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems (2019)
Journal Article
Pekaslan, D., Wagner, C., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2020). ADONiS - Adaptive Online Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 28(10), 2302-2312. https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2019.2933787

Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems (NSFLSs) have the potential to capture and handle input noise within the design of input fuzzy sets. In this paper, we propose an online learning method which utilises a sequence of observations to continuously updat... Read More about ADONiS - Adaptive Online Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems.

A Hybrid Evolutionary Strategy to Optimise Early-Stage Cancer Screening (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Figueredo, G. P., Shi, P., Parkes, A. J., Evans, K., Garibaldi, J. M., Negm, O., …Robertson, J. (2019). A Hybrid Evolutionary Strategy to Optimise Early-Stage Cancer Screening. In 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) (95-102). https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2019.8790316

Current methods to identify cutoff values for tumour-associated molecules (antigens) discrimination are based on statistics and brute force. These methods applied to cancer screening problems are very inefficient, especially with large data sets with... Read More about A Hybrid Evolutionary Strategy to Optimise Early-Stage Cancer Screening.

Fuzzy Integral Driven Ensemble Classification using A Priori Fuzzy Measures (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Agrawal, U., Wagner, C., Garibaldi, J. M., & Soria, D. (2019). Fuzzy Integral Driven Ensemble Classification using A Priori Fuzzy Measures. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (1-7). https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2019.8858821

Aggregation operators are mathematical functions that enable the fusion of information from multiple sources. Fuzzy Integrals (FIs) are widely used aggregation operators, which combine information in respect to a Fuzzy Measure (FM) which captures the... Read More about Fuzzy Integral Driven Ensemble Classification using A Priori Fuzzy Measures.

Leveraging IT2 Input Fuzzy Sets in Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems to Dynamically Adapt to Varying Uncertainty Levels (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Pekaslan, D., Wagner, C., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2019). Leveraging IT2 Input Fuzzy Sets in Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems to Dynamically Adapt to Varying Uncertainty Levels. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) (1-7). https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2019.8858800

Most real-world environments are subject to different sources of uncertainty which may vary in magnitude over time. We propose that while Type-1 (T1) Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic System (NSFLSs) have the potential to tackle uncertainty within the input... Read More about Leveraging IT2 Input Fuzzy Sets in Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems to Dynamically Adapt to Varying Uncertainty Levels.

A Novel Weighted Combination Method for Feature Selection using Fuzzy Sets (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Shen, Z., Chen, X., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2019). A Novel Weighted Combination Method for Feature Selection using Fuzzy Sets. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) (1-6). https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2019.8858890

In this paper, we propose a novel weighted combination feature selection method using bootstrap and fuzzy sets. The proposed method mainly consists of three processes, including fuzzy sets generation using bootstrap, weighted combination of fuzzy set... Read More about A Novel Weighted Combination Method for Feature Selection using Fuzzy Sets.

On the Concept of Meaningfulness in Constrained Type-2 Fuzzy Sets (2019)
Conference Proceeding
D'Alterio, P., Garibaldi, J. M., & John, R. (2019). On the Concept of Meaningfulness in Constrained Type-2 Fuzzy Sets. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2019.8858942

Constrained type-2 fuzzy sets have been proposed as a tool to model type-2 fuzzy sets starting from a type-1 generator set with uncertainty. This constrained representation only defines as acceptable the embedded sets that have the same shape as the... Read More about On the Concept of Meaningfulness in Constrained Type-2 Fuzzy Sets.

Combining clustering and classification ensembles: A novel pipeline to identify breast cancer profiles (2019)
Journal Article
Agrawal, U., Soria, D., Wagner, C., Garibaldi, J., Ellis, I. O., Bartlett, J. M. S., …Green, A. R. (2019). Combining clustering and classification ensembles: A novel pipeline to identify breast cancer profiles. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 97, 27-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2019.05.002

Breast Cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer death in women, representing a very complex disease with varied molecular alterations. To assist breast cancer prognosis, the classification of patients into biological groups is of great signi... Read More about Combining clustering and classification ensembles: A novel pipeline to identify breast cancer profiles.

Psychological interventions as vaccine adjuvants: A systematic review (2019)
Journal Article
Vedhara, K., Ayling, K., Sunger, K., Caldwell, D. M., Halliday, V., Fairclough, L., …Royal, S. (2019). Psychological interventions as vaccine adjuvants: A systematic review. Vaccine, 37(25), 3255-3266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.04.091

Objectives: The effectiveness of vaccines is known to be altered by a range of psychological factors. We conducted a systematic review to evaluate the effects of psychological interventions on the ability of vaccines to protect against disease, as me... Read More about Psychological interventions as vaccine adjuvants: A systematic review.

Young adults' attitudes to sharing whole-genome sequencing information: a university-based survey (2019)
Journal Article
Stringer, P., Sharples, S., Thomson, B. J., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2019). Young adults' attitudes to sharing whole-genome sequencing information: a university-based survey. BMC Medical Genomics, 12, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12920-019-0499-2

Background Genomic services are increasingly accessible to young adults starting their independent lives with responsibility for their self-care, yet their attitudes to sharing genomic information remain under-researched. This study explored attitud... Read More about Young adults' attitudes to sharing whole-genome sequencing information: a university-based survey.

Similarity between interval-valued fuzzy sets taking into account the width of the intervals and admissible orders (2019)
Journal Article
Bustince, H., Marco-Detchart, C., Fernandez, J., Wagner, C., Garibaldi, J., & Takáč, Z. (2019). Similarity between interval-valued fuzzy sets taking into account the width of the intervals and admissible orders. Fuzzy Sets and Systems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fss.2019.04.002

In this work we study a new class of similarity measures between interval-valued fuzzy sets. The novelty of our approach lays, firstly, on the fact that we develop all the notions with respect to total orders of intervals; and secondly, on that we co... Read More about Similarity between interval-valued fuzzy sets taking into account the width of the intervals and admissible orders.

Indoor Topological Localization Using a Visual Landmark Sequence (2019)
Journal Article
Zhu, J., Li, Q., Cao, R., Sun, K., Liu, T., Garibaldi, J., …Qiu, G. (2019). Indoor Topological Localization Using a Visual Landmark Sequence. Remote Sensing, 11(1), Article 73. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11010073

© 2019 by the authors. This paper presents a novel indoor topological localization method based on mobile phone videos. Conventional methods suffer from indoor dynamic environmental changes and scene ambiguity. The proposed Visual Landmark Sequence-b... Read More about Indoor Topological Localization Using a Visual Landmark Sequence.