Wang, Shuo

This thesis studies the diversity issue of classification ensembles for class imbalance learning problems. Class imbalance learning refers to learning from imbalanced data sets, in which some classes of examples (minority) are highly under-represented comparing to other classes …

Schistosomiasis is still prevalent in seven provinces in China despite several decades of continuous effort. Suppression of transmission in low-infection areas proves to be extremely difficult, and re-emergence of the disease in areas it was previously controlled or eliminated f…