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In recent years, machine learning and deep learning methods have been increasingly explored in a variety of application domains, including healthcare. Despite the rapid advances in this field, several challenges still need to be addressed to properly model complex biomedical datasets, such as genomic datasets or physiological signals from wearable sensors, that exhibit a very high dimensionality, i.e., a high number of variables or features which can be mutually related. As evidenced by the literature, the induction of reliable predictive models becomes intrinsically harder as the data dimensionality increases. To give a contribution to this field, this paper explores a new deep learning approach that leverages the emerging paradigm of Transformers, which can capture long-range dependencies among the input features and combines them with a Convolutional Neural Network, which is suited for capturing local patterns and dependencies. The resulting architecture has shown very promising results on six biomedical datasets with high dimensionality (several thousands of features), paving the way for further research in this area.
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This research was supported by the ASTRID project (Fondazione di Sardegna, L.R. 7 agosto 2007, n\(^{\circ }\)7, CUP: F75F21001220007).
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Zedda, L., Perniciano, A., Loddo, A., Pes, B. (2023). TECD: A Transformer Encoder Convolutional Decoder for High-Dimensional Biomedical Data. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2023 Workshops. ICCSA 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14104. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37105-9_16
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