Bayesian multiple instance learning: automatic feature selection and inductive transfer

  • Authors:
  • Vikas C. Raykar;Balaji Krishnapuram;Jinbo Bi;Murat Dundar;R. Bharat Rao

  • Affiliations:
  • Siemens Medical Solutions Inc., Malvern, PA;Siemens Medical Solutions Inc., Malvern, PA;Siemens Medical Solutions Inc., Malvern, PA;Siemens Medical Solutions Inc., Malvern, PA;Siemens Medical Solutions Inc., Malvern, PA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Machine learning
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We propose a novel Bayesian multiple instance learning (MIL) algorithm. This algorithm automatically identifies the relevant feature subset, and utilizes inductive transfer when learning multiple (conceptually related) classifiers. Experimental results indicate that the proposed MIL method is more accurate than previous MIL algorithms and selects a much smaller set of useful features. Inductive transfer further improves the accuracy of the classifier as compared to learning each task individually.