There are no satisfying tools in tissue microarray (TMA) data analysis up to now to analyze the cooperative behavior of all measured markers in a multifactorial TMA approach. The developed tool TMAinspiration is not o...
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There are no satisfying tools in tissue microarray (TMA) data analysis up to now to analyze the cooperative behavior of all measured markers in a multifactorial TMA approach. The developed tool TMAinspiration is not only offering an analysis option to close this gap but also offering an ecosystem consisting of quality control concepts and supporting scripts to make this approach a platform for informed practice and further research. The TMAinspiration method is specifically focusing on the demands of the TMA analysis by controlling errors and noise by a generalized regression scheme while at the same time avoiding to introduce a priori too many constraints into the analysis of the data. So, we are testing partitions of a proximity table to find an optimal support for a ranking scheme of molecular dependencies. The idea of combining several partitions to one ensemble, which is balancing the optimization process, is based on the main assumption that all these perspectives on the cellular network need to be self-consistent. Several application examples in breast cancer and one in squamous cell carcinoma demonstrate that this procedure is nicely confirming a priori knowledge on the expression characteristics of protein markers, while also integrating many new results discovered in the treasury of a bigger TMA experiment. The code and software are now freely available at: http://***/tma_***.
combinatorial (or rule-based) methods for inferring haplotypes from genotypes on a pedigree have been studied extensively in the recent literature. These methods generally try to reconstruct the haplotypes of each ind...
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(纸本)9783642041273
combinatorial (or rule-based) methods for inferring haplotypes from genotypes on a pedigree have been studied extensively in the recent literature. These methods generally try to reconstruct the haplotypes of each individual so that the total number of recombinants is minimized in the pedigree. The problem is NP-hard, although it is known that the number of recombinants in a practical dataset is usually very small. In this paper, we consider the question of how to efficiently infer haplotypes on a large pedigree when the number of recombinants is bounded by a small constant, i.e. the so called k-recombinant haplotype configuration (k-RHC) problem. We introduce a simple probabilistic model for k-RHC where the prior haplotype probability of a founder and the haplotype transmission probability from a parent to a child are all assumed to follow the uniform distribution and k random recombinants are assumed to have taken place uniformly and independently in the pedigree. We present an O(mn log(k+1) n) time algorithm for k-RHC on tree pedigrees without mating loops, where in is the number of loci and n is the size of the input pedigree, and prove that when 90 log n < m < n(3), the algorithm can correctly find a feasible haplotype configuration that obeys the Mendelian law of inheritance and requires no more than k recombinants with probability 1 - O(k(2)log(2)n/mn + 1/(n2)). The algorithm is efficient when k is of a moderate value and could thus be used to infer haplotypes from genotypes on large tree pedigrees efficiently in practice. We have implemented the algorithm as a C++ program named TREE-k-RHC. The implementation incorporates several ideas for dealing with missing data and data with a large number of recombinants effectively. Our experimental results on both simulated and real datasets show that TREE-k-RHC can reconstruct haplotypes with a high accuracy and is much faster than the best combinatorial method in the literature.
The image segmentation problem is to delineate, or segment, a salient feature in an image. As such, this is a bipartition problem with the goal of separating the foreground from the background. An NP-hard optimization...
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The image segmentation problem is to delineate, or segment, a salient feature in an image. As such, this is a bipartition problem with the goal of separating the foreground from the background. An NP-hard optimization problem, the Normalized Cut problem, is often used as a model for image segmentation. The common approach for solving the normalized cut problem is the spectralmethod which generates heuristic solutions based upon finding the Fiedler eigenvector. Recently, Hochbaum (IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 32(5): 889-898, 2010) presented a new relaxation of the normalized cut problem, called normalized cut' problem, which is solvable in polynomial time by a combinatorial algorithm. We compare this new algorithm with the spectral method and present experimental evidence that the combinatorial algorithm provides solutions which better approximate the optimal normalized cut solution. In addition, the subjective visual quality of the segmentations provided by the combinatorial algorithm greatly improves upon those provided by the spectral method. Our study establishes an interesting observation about the normalized cut criterion that the segmentation which provides the subjectively best visual bipartition rarely corresponds to the segmentation which minimizes the objective function value of the normalized cut problem. We conclude that modeling the image segmentation problem as normalized cut criterion might not be appropriate. Instead, normalized cut not only provides better visual segmentations but is also solvable in polynomial time. Therefore, normalized cut' should be the preferred segmentation criterion for both complexity and good segmentation quality reasons.
Dynamic multi-resource fair allocation became an important topic for cloud resource management. We consider a generalized version of the dynamic multi-resource fair allocation problem, where an agent is satisfied when...
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(纸本)9781467371834
Dynamic multi-resource fair allocation became an important topic for cloud resource management. We consider a generalized version of the dynamic multi-resource fair allocation problem, where an agent is satisfied when all tasks it submitted can be processed. We design a generalized dynamic dominant resource fairness mechanism, and develop a combinatorial algorithm to find a fair allocation. Experimental results show that the solution produced by the proposed mechanism is close to the optimal solution.
The paper presents theoretical grounds of recurrent-and-parallel computing applying in combinatorial GMDH algorithm for modeling and prediction of complex multidimensional interrelated processes in the class of vector...
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(纸本)9781538616390
The paper presents theoretical grounds of recurrent-and-parallel computing applying in combinatorial GMDH algorithm for modeling and prediction of complex multidimensional interrelated processes in the class of vector autoregressive models. The effectiveness of the constructed algorithm is demonstrated by modeling of interrelated processes in the field of Ukraine energy sphere with the purpose of effective managerial decision making.
This thesis is concerned with determining the knot Floer homology and concordance invariants of pretzel knots, in particular three-strand pretzel knots. Knot Floer homology is a package of knot invariants developed by...
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This thesis is concerned with determining the knot Floer homology and concordance invariants of pretzel knots, in particular three-strand pretzel knots. Knot Floer homology is a package of knot invariants developed by Ozsvath and Szabo, and despite the invariants being known for simple classes of knots --- for example quasi-alternating, two-bridge and L-space knots --- there are still many simple families for which knot Floer homology and the associated concordance invariants are not known. Recent work by Ozsvath-Szabo developed a construction of an algebraic invariant C(D), conjectured by them to be equal to a variant of knot Floer homology. This complex is a bigraded, bifiltered chain complex whose filtered chain homotopy type is an invariant of a knot. Their construction --- which has also been implemented in a C++ program -- is a divide and conquer method which decomposes knot diagrams in a certain form into smaller pieces, to which algebraic objects are then associated. These algebraic objects are themselves invariants (up to appropriate equivalence) of partial knot diagrams, and are pieced together to form the full invariant. As with classical knot Floer homology, one can study the homology of this complex C(D), or the homology of subcomplexes and quotient complexes, which are also invariants of a knot. Even more recent work of Ozsvath and Szabo confirms that this conjectured equivalence between the theories holds. Hence, like the well-known grid homology of a knot, this algebraic method provides a combinatorial construction of knot Floer homology --- or in this case some slightly modified version of classical knot Floer homology, like that presented by Dai-Hom-Stroffregen-Truong. The benefit of such combinatorial constructions is that they do not rely on computation of the counts of pseudo-holomorphic representatives of Whitney disks in some high-dimensional space, unlike classical knot Floer homology. The grid homology developed by Manolescu-Ozsvath-Sarkar h
Since the pioneering work of Gale and Shapley, the stable marriage problem has received wide treatment by researchers due to its elegance and applicability. The original problem has been generalized and well studied f...
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Blocks World is a prototype artificial intelligence problem used to exemplify problem solving using searching and planning algorithms. In this paper we present and experimentally evaluate combinatorial algorithms for ...
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The paper analyses the problem of the convergence investigation for typical GMDH criteria based on the data sample division into two subsamples. This study is significant for additional justification of applying the G...
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