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SymScal: symbolic multidimensional scaling of interval dissimilarities
Multidimensional scaling aims at reconstructing dissimilaritiesbetween pairs of objects by distances in a low dimensional space.However, in some cases the dissimilarity itself is unknown, but therange of the dissimilarity is given. Such fuzzy data fall in thewider class of symbolic data (Bock and Diday, 2000).Denoeux and Masson (2000) have proposed to model an intervaldissimilarity by a range of the distance defined as the minimum andmaximum distance between two rectangles representing the objects. Inthis paper, we provide a new algorithm called SymScal that is basedon iterative majorization. The advantage is that each iteration isguaranteed to improve the solution until no improvement is possible.In a simulation study, we investigate the quality of thisalgorithm. We discuss the use of SymScal on empirical dissimilarityintervals of sounds.iterative majorization;multidimensional scaling;symbolic data analysis;distance smoothing
3rd Workshop in Symbolic Data Analysis: book of abstracts
This workshop is the third regular meeting of researchers interested in Symbolic Data Analysis. The main aim of the
event is to favor the meeting of people and the exchange of ideas from different fields - Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, among others - that contribute to Symbolic Data Analysis
Hierarchical Kernel and Sub-kernels
This paper shows the theoretical development of hierarchy by kernels and an algorithm used to obtain an interesting class or partition from a hierarchy. Also shown is the theorem about the Kernels Optimal Criterion and how it is expressed as a function of the masses of the points of the vector space and product scale points, the inertia of the cloud formed by those two points or hierarchical nodes, which are called subcores or sub-kernels. The application is made on the terminal efficiency of postgraduate degrees at ESIA, IPN Mexico, along its first 48 years of academic and scientific life and the development of studentsĀ“ graduation
Image processing for plastic surgery planning
This thesis presents some image processing tools for plastic surgery planning. In particular,
it presents a novel method that combines local and global context in a probabilistic
relaxation framework to identify cephalometric landmarks used in Maxillofacial plastic
surgery. It also uses a method that utilises global and local symmetry to identify abnormalities
in CT frontal images of the human body. The proposed methodologies are
evaluated with the help of several clinical data supplied by collaborating plastic surgeons
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