Novel Robust Augmentation Approach Based on Sensing Features for Data Classification

Abstract

Learning networks have become extremely powerful tools for data classification. One drawback in many of these applications, however, is that they require a large dataset for efficient performance. Medical imaging, for example, cannot make large enough databases available due to strong data privacy concerns and high data collection costs. Fortunately, data augmentation can provide a solution to improve the classification performance of these systems. This paper proposes a novel method for data augmentation based on the compressive sensing technique. Our approach uses sensing matrices to manipulate data features into different spaces in a compressed form, which are then combined and used as extensions of the original limited dataset. This new feature representation is allowing for a more robust learning network that thereby enables improved data classification. When applying our approach to binary-class and multi-class datasets, results showed that our approach can significantly improve the classifier performance and enhance classification results for both datasets.