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Thomas Trappenberg

Professor of Computer Science, Dalhousie University
Verified email at cs.dal.ca
Cited by 4080

[BOOK][B] Fundamentals of computational neuroscience

T Trappenberg - 2009 - books.google.com
Computational neuroscience is the theoretical study of the brain to uncover the principles
and mechanisms that guide the development, organization, information processing, and …

[HTML][HTML] Plankton classification with high-throughput submersible holographic microscopy and transfer learning

L MacNeil, S Missan, J Luo, T Trappenberg… - BMC Ecology and …, 2021 - Springer
Background Plankton are foundational to marine food webs and an important feature for
characterizing ocean health. Recent developments in quantitative imaging devices provide in-…

[HTML][HTML] Using structural MRI to identify bipolar disorders–13 site machine learning study in 3020 individuals from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorders Working Group

…, DJ Stein, HS Temmingh, T Trappenberg… - Molecular …, 2020 - nature.com
Bipolar disorders (BDs) are among the leading causes of morbidity and disability. Objective
biological markers, such as those based on brain imaging, could aid in clinical management …

[BOOK][B] Fundamentals of machine learning

TP Trappenberg - 2019 - books.google.com
Interest in machine learning is exploding worldwide, both in research and for industrial
applications. Machine learning is fast becoming a fundamental part of everyday life. This book is …

A model of saccade initiation based on the competitive integration of exogenous and endogenous signals in the superior colliculus

TP Trappenberg, MC Dorris, DP Munoz… - Journal of cognitive …, 2001 - direct.mit.edu
Significant advances in cognitive neuroscience can be achieved by combining techniques
used to measure behavior and brain activity with neural modeling. Here we apply this …

Overlap versus imbalance

M Denil, T Trappenberg - … on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian AI 2010 …, 2010 - Springer
In this paper we give a systematic analysis of the relationship between imbalance and overlap
as factors influencing classifier performance. We demonstrate that these two factors have …

A deep learning based approach to skin lesion border extraction with a novel edge detector in dermoscopy images

…, SJ O'Shea, G Yang, T Trappenberg… - … Joint Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Lesion border detection is considered a crucial step in diagnosing skin cancer. However,
performing such a task automatically is challenging due to the low contrast between the …

Skin cancer detection based on deep learning and entropy to detect outlier samples

AGC Pacheco, AR Ali, T Trappenberg - arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.04525, 2019 - arxiv.org
We describe our methods that achieved the 3rd and 4th places in tasks 1 and 2, respectively,
at ISIC challenge 2019. The goal of this challenge is to provide the diagnostic for skin …

On out-of-distribution detection algorithms with deep neural skin cancer classifiers

…, CS Sastry, T Trappenberg… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Computer-aided skin cancer detection systems built with deep neural networks yield
overconfident predictions on out-of-distribution examples. Motivated by the importance of out-of-…

Prediction of lithium response using clinical data

…, J Rybakowski, L Tondo, T Trappenberg… - Acta Psychiatrica …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Promptly establishing maintenance therapy could reduce morbidity and mortality
in patients with bipolar disorder. Using a machine learning approach, we sought to evaluate …