Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Wave-driven resuspension as the dominant environmental predictor of enterococci at Chicago beaches

Abstract Predicting fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) to protect public health at Chicago beaches remains a significant challenge due to complex, site-specific environmental dynamics. This study presents a machine learning pipeline utilizing site-specific random forest regressor mod...

What a slice-level benchmark certifies without the pixels: a label-file audit of seven public benchmarks, and a protocol-frozen random-sample screen of how often the check is reported

Background. Volumetric images are often labelled and scored one slice at a time. Shortcut learning, acquisition confounding and the inflation caused by slice-level splits are documented, and a pixel-free positional baseline is itself prior art; what is unmeasured is how much of a...

What a slice-level benchmark certifies without the pixels: a label-file audit of seven public benchmarks, and a protocol-frozen random-sample screen of how often the check is reported

Background. Volumetric images are often labelled and scored one slice at a time. Shortcut learning, acquisition confounding and the inflation caused by slice-level splits are documented, and a pixel-free positional baseline is itself prior art; what is unmeasured is how much of a...