Giuseppe Jurman

The advantages of the Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) over F1 score and accuracy in binary classification evaluation

2020 · BMC Genomics

Abstract Background To evaluate binary classifications and their confusion matrices, scientific researchers can employ several statistical rates, accordingly to the goal of the experiment they are investigating. Despite being a crucial issue in machine learning, …

Mitigating Health Data Poverty: Generative Approaches versus Resampling for Time-series Clinical Data

2022 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Several approaches have been developed to mitigate algorithmic bias stemming from health data poverty, where minority groups are underrepresented in training datasets. Augmenting the minority class using resampling (such as SMOTE) is a widely used …