Prostate cancer (PCa) symptoms are commonly confused with benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH), particularly in the early stages due to similarities between symptoms, and in some instances, underdiagnoses. Clinical methods have been utilized to diagnose PCa; however, at the full-blown stage, clinical...

Forecasting stock market movements is a challenging task from the practitioners' point of view. We explore how model selection via the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) approach can be better used to forecast stock closing prices using real-world datasets of daily stock...

The enormous growth experienced by the credit industry has led researchers to develop sophisticated credit scoring models that help lenders decide whether to grant or reject credit to applicants. This paper proposes a credit scoring model based on boosted decision trees, a powerful learning...

In this study, we proposed a general pruning procedure to reduce the dimension of a large database so that the properties of the extracted subset can be well defined. Since learning functions have been widely applied, we take this group of functions as an example to demonstrate the proposed...

In many applications such as credit risk management, data are represented as high-dimensional feature vectors. It makes the feature selection necessary to reduce the computational complexity, improve the generalization ability and the interpretability. In this paper, we present a novel feature...