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INTRODUCTION
R. Yan
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Fig. 1. The blind men and the giant elephant: the localized (limited) view
of each blind man leads to a biased conclusion.
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diverse dimensionalities. This is because different information collectors prefer their own schemata or protocols for
data recording, and the nature of different applications also
results in diverse data representations. For example, each
single human being in a biomedical world can be
represented by using simple demographic information such
as gender, age, family disease history, and so on. For X-ray
examination and CT scan of each individual, images or
videos are used to represent the results because they
provide visual information for doctors to carry detailed
examinations. For a DNA or genomic-related test, microarray expression images and sequences are used to
represent the genetic code information because this is the
way that our current techniques acquire the data. Under
such circumstances, the heterogeneous features refer to the
different types of representations for the same individuals,
and the diverse features refer to the variety of the features
involved to represent each single observation. Imagine that
different organizations (or health practitioners) may have
their own schemata to represent each patient, the data
heterogeneity and diverse dimensionality issues become
major challenges if we are trying to enable data aggregation
by combining data from all sources.
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RELATED WORK
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REFERENCES
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CONCLUSIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This work was supported by the National 863 Program of
China (2012AA011005), the National 973 Program of China
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