Le 15/05/2021 par lmoalic :
Artificial intelligence, metaheuristics, deep learning, medical imaging, optimization algorithms, hybrids methods.
Machine learning has witnessed a tremendous amount of attention over the last few years. Deep neural networks are now the state-of-the-art machine learning models across a variety of areas, from image analysis to natural language processing, and widely deployed in academia and industry.
At the same time, many recent researches in metaheuristic are based on hybrid algorithms, as memetic approaches where a local search is combined with a genetic scheme in order to tackle NP-Hard problems.
Metaheuristics and machine learning are complementary and can be combined to provide very powerful AI algorithms. In particular, the field of evolutionary machine learning allows for the production of transparent, explainable, and flexible AI systems. Evolutionary machine learning continues to grow in popularity because of the performance that effective genetic search with effective machine learning enables.
Among the fields where neural networks have a huge potential one can notice medical applications. Medical data analysis, medical diagnostics and healthcare in general, focus a lot of attention in the machine learning community these days to solve various problems in medical imaging fields [1]. However, the proposed models might generate more false positives than physicians and thus lead to the increment of assessment time and unnecessary biopsies [2]. This is due to the fact that proposed models in the literature are designed to find solutions for some specific tasks and it is not possible to apply an existing machine learning pipeline to the medical domain and still have superior results in a simple straightforward manner [3].
In this context, challenging researches are allowed to improve the efficiency of current deep neural networks based on powerful heuristics, especially in the field of medicine.
In this thesis we are interested in constructing a specialized machine learning pipeline. The extra degree of freedom from the design space could make this process very time-consuming and demand for automated machine learning methods that can be adopted easily without any expert knowledge. Thanks to the meta-heuristics, these problems could be overcome with great answering accuracy and allow humans to spend time on other productive tasks. In this direction, we propose to find a highly efficient deep neural network that is optimized using meta-heuristic algorithms for medical imaging [4,5,6]. The deep networks use a hierarchy of features in conjunction with several layers to learn complex non-linear mappings between the input and output layers. At the opposite of traditional machine learning methods that use handmade features, the important features are discovered automatically and are represented hierarchically. This is known to be the strong point of deep networks against traditional machine learning approaches. Accordingly, these models have been described as universal learning approaches that are not task-specific and can be used to tackle different problems arising in different research domains. Particularly, we are interested in convolutional neural networks; which are regularized versions of fully-connected neural networks inspired from biological visual systems.
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M.-A. Zöller & M. F. Huber. Survey on automated machine learning. CoRR, abs/1904.12054, 2019.
H. Rakhshani, H. Ismail-Fawaz, L. Idoumghar, G. Forestier, J. Lepagnot, J. Weber, M. Brevilliers and P.A Muller, “Neural Architecture Search for Time Series Classification”. The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 19 - 24th July, 2020, Glasgow (UK) (http://www.mage.fst.uha.fr/idoumghar/ijcnn2020.pdf).
H. Rakhshani, B. Latard, M. Brevilliers, J. Weber, J. Lepagnot, G. Forestier, M. Hassenforder and L. Idoumghar, “Automated Machine Learning for Information Retrieval in Scientific Articles”. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 19 - 24th July, 2020, Glasgow (UK) (www.mage.fst.uha.fr/idoumghar/cec2020.pdf)
H. Rakhshani, L. Idoumghar, J. Lepagnot, M. Brévilliers, Ed. Keedwell “Automatic hyperparameter selection in Autodock”. IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, pp. 34-738, 3-6 Dec. 2018, Madrid, Spain.
Master of Science in Computer Science or any discipline relevant to this area of research.
The candidate should have some knowledge and experience in the optimization, computer vision, and/or swarm intelligence domains.
Strong programming skills in Matlab, Python, Java, or C++.
The candidate should be fluent in English and/or French languages.
Applicants are invited to contact the advisors: lhassane.idoumghar@uha.fr, laurent.moalic@uha.fr and hojjat.rakhshani@uha.fr
Your application must contain the following documents:
A letter motivating the application (cover letter)
Curriculum vitae
Grade transcripts and BSc/MSc certificates
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