Recently, there has been considerable progress in cardiac image analysis techniques, cardiac atlases, and computational models, which can integrate data from large-scale databases of heart shape, function, and physiology. Integrative models of cardiac function are important for understanding disease, evaluating treatment, and planning intervention. However, significant clinical translation of…
This volume contains the papers presented at the Third International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP 2015), held in Budapest, Hungary, during November 24–26, 2015. SLSP 2015 was the third event in a series to host and promote research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing; it aim…
This volume contains the Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Statistical Learning and Data Sciences, which was held at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, during April 20–23, 2015. The original idea of the Symposium on Statistical Learning and Data Sciences is due to two French academics – Professors Mireille Gettler Summa and Myriam Touati – from Paris Dauphine University. Bac…
Movies will never be the same after you learn how to analyze movie data, including key data mining, text mining and social network analytics concepts. These techniques may then be used in endless other contexts. In the movie application, this topic opens a lively discussion on the current developments in big data from a data science perspective. This book is geared to applied researchers and pr…
Over the past 8 years, the topics associated with statistical learning have been expanded and consolidated. They have been expanded because new problems have been tackled, new tools have been developed, and older tools have been refined. They have been consolidated because many unifying concepts and themes have been identified. It has also become more clear from practice which statistical …
This book originated from a series of discussions among the editors when we were all at the University of Rochester, NY, before 2015. At that time, we had a research discussion group under the leadership of Professor Xin M. Tu that met biweekly to discuss the methodological development on statistical causal inferences and their applications to public health data. In this group, we got a clo…
This book provides a modern introductory tutorial on specialized methodological and applied aspects of spatial and temporal modeling. The areas covered involve a range of topics which reflect the diversity of this domain of research across a number of quantitative disciplines. For instance, the first chapter deals with non-parametric Bayesian inference via a recently developed framework known a…
roceedings and carefully prepared their manuscripts within a tight timeline. These proceedings would also not be possible without the successful symposium, which gave us the opportunity to share, learn, and choose so many high-quality papers. Our deep gratitude goes to the leadership of Naitee Ting and the executive organizing committee, the program committee, and many other volunteers of t…
The Norwegian government established the Abel Prize in mathematics in 2002, and the first prize was awarded in 2003. In addition to honoring the great Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel by awarding an international prize for outstanding scientific work in the field of mathematics, the prize shall contribute toward raising the status of mathematics in society and stimulate the interes…