Data mining and machine learning, particularly as applied to the analysis of clinical medical data. Foundational issues related to performance analysis of data mining and machine learning systems.
Recent papers on physiological data analysis / mining
P. Putra*, K. Shima, S. A. Alvarez, and K. Shimatani. Identifying autism spectrum disorder symptoms using response and gaze behavior during the Go/NoGo game CatChicken,听Scientific Reports, vol. 11, Nov. 2021
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S. Paisarnsrisomsuk*, C. Ruiz, and S. A. Alvarez鈥�. Capturing the development of internal representations in a high-performing deep network for sleep stage classification,听SN Computer Science聽2, 318 (2021)
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M. Sokolovsky*, F. Guerrero*, S. Paisarnsrisomsuk*, C. Ruiz, and S. A. Alvarez鈥�. Deep learning for automated feature discovery and classification of sleep stages,听IEEE / ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Nov-Dec 2020; 17(6):1835-1845;聽聽Epub 2020 Dec 8.
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S. Paisarnsrisomsuk*, M. Sokolovsky*, F. Guerrero*, C. Ruiz, and S. A. Alvarez鈥�.聽,听KDD 2018 Deep Learning Day,听2018 ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2018), London, UK, Aug. 2018
S. A. Alvarez, E. Winner, A. Hawley-Dolan, L. Snapper*.
What gaze fixation and pupil dilation can tell us about perceived differences between abstract art by artists vs. by children and animals,听, 44(11): 1310-1331 (Nov. 2015)
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Recent theoretical papers on metrics for machine learning
S. A. Alvarez鈥�. Gaussian centered kernel alignment (CKA) in the large-bandwidth limit,听IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), Oct. 2022 (early access)