COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN MACHINE LEARNING: TRANSPORT MODEL, HAAR WAVELET, DNA CLASSIFICATION, AND MRI

Abstract

With the increasing amount of raw data generation produced every day, it has become pertinent to develop new techniques for data representation, analyses, and interpretation. Motivated by real-world applications, there is a trending interest in techniques such as dimensionality reduction, wavelet decomposition, and classication methods that allow for better understanding of data. This thesis details the development of a new non-linear dimension reduction technique based on transport model by advection. We provide a series of computational experiments, and practical applications in hyperspectral images to illustrate the strength of our algorithm. In wavelet decomposition, we construct a novel Haar approximation technique for functions f in the Lp-space, 0 < p < 1, such that the approximants have support contained in the support of f. Furthermore, a classification algorithm to study tissue-specific deoxyribonucleic acids (DNA) is constructed using the support vector machine. In magnetic resonance imaging, we provide an extension of the T2-store-T2 magnetic resonance relaxometry experiment used in the analysis of magnetization signal from 2 to N exchanging sites, where N >= 2.