Effective compression of hyperspectral (HS) images is essential due to their large data volume. Since these images are high dimensional, processing them is also another challenging issue. In this work, an efficient lossy HS image compression method based on enhanced multivariance products representation (EMPR) is proposed. As an efficient data decomposition method, EMPR enables us to represent the given multidimensional data with lower-dimensional entities. EMPR, as a finite expansion with relevant approximations, can be acquired by truncating this expansion at certain levels. Thus, EMPR can be utilized as a highly effective lossy compression algorithm for hyper spectral images. In addition to these, an efficient variety of EMPR is also introduced in this article, in order to increase the compression efficiency. The results are benchmarked with several state-of-the-art lossy compression methods. It is observed that both higher peak signal-to-noise ratio values and improved classification accuracy are achieved from EMPR-based methods.

Hyperspectral (HS) Imagery helps to capture information using specialized sensors to extract detailed data at numerous narrow wavelengths. Hyperspectral imaging provides both spatial and spectral characteristics of regions or objects for subsequent analysis. Unfortunately, various noise sources decrease the interpretability of these images as well as the correlation between neighbouring pixels, hence both reduce the classification performance. This study focuses on developing an ensemble algorithm that enables to denoise the spectral signals while decorrelating the spatio-spectral features concurrently. The developed method is called Wavelet High Dimensional Model (W-HDMR) and combines High Dimensional Model Representation (HDMR) with the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). Through W-HDMR, denoised and decorrelated features are extracted from the HS cubes. HDMR decorrelates each dimension in HS data while DWT denoises the spectral signals. The classification performance of W-HDMR as a new feature extraction technique for HS images is assessed by exploiting a Support Vector Machines algorithm. The results indicate that the proposed W-HDMR method is an efficient feature extraction technique and is considered an adequate tool in the HS classification problem.

Flight delays pose significant inconveniences for travelers, potentially causing missed connections, schedule adjustments, and time wastage. This study presents a machine-learning driven approach to mitigate these challenges by developing an application that predicts flight delays, empowering passengers with insights to minimize travel disruptions. Leveraging diverse machine learning algorithms and datasets from the United States Department of Transportation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Service, our model aids travelers in making informed decisions by suggesting optimal flight times and carriers based on historical flight data and weather conditions. Addressing the issue of imbalanced data, we explore techniques such as Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique (SMOTE) and under-sampling. Our comparative analysis highlights the superior performance of Light Gradient Boosting Machine (L-GBM) in predicting flight delays. With an F1-score of and an AUC value of , our study offers a promising solution to enhance passenger experiences through improved flight recommendations.

In medical genetics, each genetic variant is evaluated as an independent entity regarding its clinical importance. However, in most complex diseases, variant combinations in specific gene networks, rather than the presence of a particular single variant, predominates. In the case of complex diseases, disease status can be evaluated by considering the success level of a team of specific variants. We propose a high dimensional modelling based method to analyse all the variants in a gene network together, which we name “Computational Gene Network Analysis” (CoGNA).To evaluate our method, we selected two gene networks, mTOR and TGF- $\beta$ . For each pathway, we generated 400 control and 400 patient group samples. mTOR and TGF- $\beta$ pathways contain 31 and 93 genes of varying sizes, respectively. We produced Chaos Game Representation images for each gene sequence to obtain 2-D binary patterns. These patterns were arranged in succession, and a 3-D tensor structure was achieved for each gene network. Features for each data sample were acquired by exploiting Enhanced Multivariance Products Representation to 3-D data. Features were split as training and testing vectors. Training vectors were employed to train a Support Vector Machines classification model. We achieved more than $96\%$ and $99\%$ classification accuracies for mTOR and TGF- $\beta$ networks, respectively, using a limited amount of training samples.