Similarity-Based Clustering Recent Developments and Biomedical Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Biehl, Michael (Editor), Hammer, Barbara (Editor), Verleysen, Michel (Editor), Villmann, Thomas (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5400
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Data mining.; Information storage and retrieval.; Computer graphics.; Bioinformatics.; Life Sciences.; Life Sciences, general.; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics.; Biomedicine general.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics.

This book is the outcome of the Dagstuhl Seminar on "Similarity-Based Clustering" held at Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in Spring 2007. In three chapters, the three fundamental aspects of a theoretical background, the representation of data and their connection to algorithms, and particular ch...

Table of Contents:

• I: Dynamics of Similarity-Based Clustering
• Statistical Mechanics of On-line Learning
• Some Theoretical Aspects of the Neural Gas Vector Quantizer
• Immediate Reward Reinforcement Learning for Clustering and Topology Preserving Mappings
• II: Information Representation
• Advances in Feature Selection with Mutual Information
• Unleashing Pearson Correlation for Faithful Analysis of Biomedical Data
• Median Topographic Maps for Biomedical Data Sets
• Visualization of Structured Data via Generative Probabilistic Modeling
• III: Particular Challenges in Applications
• Learning Highly Structured Manifolds: Harnessing the Power of SOMs
• Estimation of Boar Sperm Status Using Intracellular Density Distribution in Grey Level Images
• HIV-1 Drug Resistance Prediction and Therapy Optimization: A Case Study for the Application of Classification and Clustering Methods.