• IE interfaces
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.151-155
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• 2011

In this study, we propose a signomial classification method with ₀-regularization (₀-)which seeks a sparse signomial function by solving a mixed-integer program to minimize the weighted sum of the ₀-norm of the coefficient vector of the resulting function and the $L_1$-norm of loss caused by the function. $SC_0$ gives an explicit description of the resulting function with a small number of terms in the original input space, which can be used for prediction purposes as well as interpretation purposes. We present a practical implementation of $SC_0$ based on the mixed-integer programming and the column generation procedure previously proposed for the signomial classification method with $SL_1$-regularization. Computational study shows that $SC_0$ gives competitive performance compared to other widely used learning methods for classification.

• IE interfaces
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.365-371
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• 2010

In this study, we propose a novel remote health monitoring system to accurately predict Parkinson's disease severity using a signomial regression method. In order to characterize the Parkinson's disease severity, sixteen biomedical voice measurements associated with symptoms of the Parkinson's disease, are used to develop the telemonitoring model for early detection of the Parkinson's disease. The proposed approach could be utilized for not only prediction purposes, but also interpretation purposes in practice, providing an explicit description of the resulting function in the original input space. Compared to the accuracy performance with the existing methods, the proposed algorithm produces less error rate for predicting Parkinson's disease severity.