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Transfer learning is a widely used method to build high performing computer vision models. In this paper, we study the efficacy of transfer learning by examining how the choice of data impacts performance. We find that more pre-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Jiquan Ngiam , Daiyi Peng , Vijay Vasudevan , Simon Kornblith , Quoc V. Le , Ruoming Pang

Transfer learning is a machine learning technique that uses previously acquired knowledge from a source domain to enhance learning in a target domain by reusing learned weights. This technique is ubiquitous because of its great advantages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Nermeen Abou Baker , Nico Zengeler , Uwe Handmann

While analytics of sleep electroencephalography (EEG) holds certain advantages over other methods in clinical applications, high variability across subjects poses a significant challenge when it comes to deploying machine learning models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Manoj Vishwanath , Steven Cao , Nikil Dutt , Amir M. Rahmani , Miranda M. Lim , Hung Cao

The electrocardiogram (ECG) remains a fundamental tool in cardiac diagnostics, yet its interpretation traditionally reliant on the expertise of cardiologists. The emergence of deep learning has heralded a revolutionary era in medical data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Cheng Ding , Tianliang Yao , Chenwei Wu , Jianyuan Ni

Accurate decoding of surface electromyography (sEMG) is pivotal for muscle-to-machine-interfaces (MMI) and their application for e.g. rehabilitation therapy. sEMG signals have high inter-subject variability, due to various factors,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Stephan Johann Lehmler , Muhammad Saif-ur-Rehman , Tobias Glasmachers , Ioannis Iossifidis

State-of-the-art, high capacity deep neural networks not only require large amounts of labelled training data, they are also highly susceptible to label errors in this data, typically resulting in large efforts and costs and therefore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Christian Haase-Schütz , Rainer Stal , Heinz Hertlein , Bernhard Sick

Transfer learning from natural image datasets, particularly ImageNet, using standard large models and corresponding pretrained weights has become a de-facto method for deep learning applications to medical imaging. However, there are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Maithra Raghu , Chiyuan Zhang , Jon Kleinberg , Samy Bengio

Deep learning-based electrocardiogram (ECG) classification has shown impressive performance but clinical adoption has been slowed by the lack of transparent and faithful explanations. Post hoc methods such as saliency maps may fail to…

Deep learning models have shown high accuracy in classifying electrocardiograms (ECGs), but their black box nature hinders clinical adoption due to a lack of trust and interpretability. To address this, we propose a novel three-stage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jose Geraldo Fernandes , Luiz Facury de Souza , Pedro Robles Dutenhefner , Gisele L. Pappa , Wagner Meira

As the application of deep learning has expanded to real-world problems with insufficient volume of training data, transfer learning recently has gained much attention as means of improving the performance in such small-data regime.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Yunhun Jang , Hankook Lee , Sung Ju Hwang , Jinwoo Shin

Transfer learning for deep neural networks is the process of first training a base network on a source dataset, and then transferring the learned features (the network's weights) to a second network to be trained on a target dataset. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Hassan Ismail Fawaz , Germain Forestier , Jonathan Weber , Lhassane Idoumghar , Pierre-Alain Muller

Clinical 12-lead electrocardiography (ECG) is one of the most widely encountered kinds of biosignals. Despite the increased availability of public ECG datasets, label scarcity remains a central challenge in the field. Self-supervised…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-05 Temesgen Mehari , Nils Strodthoff

Many statistical learning models hold an assumption that the training data and the future unlabeled data are drawn from the same distribution. However, this assumption is difficult to fulfill in real-world scenarios and creates barriers in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Yuxin Ma , Arlen Fan , Jingrui He , Arun Reddy Nelakurthi , Ross Maciejewski

Transfer learning is widely used for training machine learning models. Here, we study the role of transfer learning for training fully convolutional networks (FCNs) for medical image segmentation. Our experiments show that although transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Davood Karimi , Simon K. Warfield , Ali Gholipour

Datasets in sleep science present challenges for machine learning algorithms due to differences in recording setups across clinics. We investigate two deep transfer learning strategies for overcoming the channel mismatch problem for cases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Alexander Neergaard Olesen , Poul Jennum , Emmanuel Mignot , Helge B. D. Sorensen

Deep neural networks such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformers have achieved many successes in image classification in recent years. It has been consistently demonstrated that best practice for image classification is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jo Plested , Musa Phiri , Tom Gedeon

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved superior performance in various applications, but training dedicated GNNs can be costly for large-scale graphs. Some recent work started to study the pre-training of GNNs. However, none of them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Qi Zhu , Carl Yang , Yidan Xu , Haonan Wang , Chao Zhang , Jiawei Han

Over the past decade, the field of machine learning has experienced remarkable advancements. While image recognition systems have achieved impressive levels of accuracy, they continue to rely on extensive training datasets. Additionally, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Benji Alwis

Meta-Learning is a subarea of Machine Learning that aims to take advantage of prior knowledge to learn faster and with fewer data [1]. There are different scenarios where meta-learning can be applied, and one of the most common is algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Gean Trindade Pereira , Moisés dos Santos , Edesio Alcobaça , Rafael Mantovani , André Carvalho

In this work we search for best practices in pre-processing of Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals in order to train better classifiers for the diagnosis of heart conditions. State of the art machine learning algorithms have achieved remarkable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Amir Salimi , Sunil Vasu Kalmady , Abram Hindle , Osmar Zaiane , Padma Kaul