Approximate Bayesian computing (ABC) and Bayesian Synthetic likelihood (BSL) are two popular families of methods to evaluate the posterior distribution when the likelihood function is not available or tractable. For existing variants of ABC and BSL, the focus is usually first put on the simulation algorithm, and after that the form of the resulting approximate posterior distribution comes as a ...

Nowadays, most people have a smartphone that can track their everyday activities. Furthermore, a significant number of people wear advanced smartwatches to track several vital biomarkers in addition to activity data. However, it is still unclear how these data can actually be used to improve certain aspects of people’s lives. One of the key challenges is that the collected data is often massive and ...

Streaming classification methods assume the number of input features is fixed and always received. But in many real-world scenarios, some features are reliable while others are unreliable or inconsistent. We propose a novel online deep learning-based model called Auxiliary Network (Aux-Net), which is scalable and agile and can handle any number of inputs at each time instance. The Aux-Net model is ...

Medical histories of patients can provide insight into the immediate future of a patient. While most studies propose to predict survival from vital signs and hospital tests within one episode of care, we carry out selective feature engineering from longitudinal historical medical records in this study to develop a dataset with derived features. We then train multiple machine learning models for the ...

The increasing use of omics data in epidemiology enables many novel study designs, but also introduces challenges for data analysis. We describe the possibilities for systems epidemiological designs in the Norwegian Women and Cancer (NOWAC) study and show how the complexity of NOWAC enables many beautiful new study designs. We discuss the challenges of implementing designs and analyzing data. Finally, ...

The in vitro fertilization procedure called intracytoplasmic sperm injection can be used to help fertilize an egg by injecting a single sperm cell directly into the cytoplasm of the egg. In order to evaluate, refine and improve the method in the fertility clinic, the procedure is usually observed at the clinic. Alternatively, a video of the procedure can be examined and labeled in a time-consuming ...

rticle 17 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) contains a right for the data subject to obtain the erasure of personal data. The right to erasure in the GDPR gives, however, little clear guidance on how controllers processing personal data should erase the personal data to meet the requirements set out in Article 17. Machine Learning (ML) models that have been trained on personal data ...

A client-side approach brings great opportunities for flexible personalization of timed media experiences. This, turns it into a challenge of UX development. However, UX development does not support time-driven rendering or shared interactivity, which are required by media related scenarios. Moreover, UX development is already quite complicated, so adding support for timed rendering and shared ...

Learning to dehaze single hazy images, especially using a small training dataset is quite challenging. We propose a novel generative adversarial network architecture for this problem, namely back projected pyramid network (BPPNet), that gives good performance for a variety of challenging haze conditions, including dense haze and inhomogeneous haze. Our architecture incorporates learning of multiple ...