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dc.contributorDepartment of Electronic and Information Engineeringen_US
dc.creatorTang, Jing-
dc.identifier.urihttps://theses.lib.polyu.edu.hk/handle/200/6140-
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.publisherHong Kong Polytechnic University-
dc.rightsAll rights reserveden_US
dc.titleOn the data imbalance problem in SVM-based subcellular localizationen_US
dcterms.abstractSeveral computational methods have been proposed for protein subcellular localization. SVMs perform well when classes are equally represented, but are limited in their performance on highly imbalanced datasets. Here we propose two novel methods to overcome this data-imbalance problem. The proposed methods use over-sampling techniques to create new minority-class patterns to rebalance the datasets. Pairwise alignment is used to align query sequences with training sequences and obtain score vectors with dimensionality equal to the number of training sequences. Experimental results on two subcellular localization datasets show that the proposed over-sampling methods are able to improve the total accuracy. We believe that the proposed methods will not only be applicable to subcellular localization, but also to other machine learning applications.en_US
dcterms.extent37 leaves : col. ill. ; 30 cm.en_US
dcterms.isPartOfPolyU Electronic Thesesen_US
dcterms.issued2011en_US
dcterms.educationalLevelAll Masteren_US
dcterms.educationalLevelM.Sc.en_US
dcterms.LCSHSupport vector machinesen_US
dcterms.LCSHBioinformaticsen_US
dcterms.LCSHMachine learningen_US
dcterms.LCSHHong Kong Polytechnic University -- Dissertationsen_US
dcterms.accessRightsrestricted accessen_US

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