The aim of machine learning is to obtain a good model to correctly predict unseen data. In order to train such models, one needs a sufficient number of clean examples of the ground truth. However, some applications' datasets are not guaranteed to consist entirely of pure examples and might contain mislabeled data. Handling mislabeled data is a domain of outlier statistics and have been studied to some extent in the context of machine learning. Here we ask how does mislabeled data in a training set effect classification performance in deep neural networks. More specifically, motivated by an industrial application, we consider the case where the probability of the class mislabeling in the training set varies considerably between each class. We hence contrast in this paper the case of systematic mislabeling of one class to the more commonly studied situation of a uniform mislabeling between all classes. We demonstrate that the non-uniform mislabeling is more challenging than the more commonly studied uniform case. We also explicitly explore the dependence of our findings to the size of the training data which is not only a common limiting factor in industrial applications but which also has a large effect on the results. We demonstrate that deep networks have an inherent robustness when large datasets are available.

An emerging field in medical diagnostics is the study of micro-circulations in blood vessels. Several characteristics of the micro-circulations in blood vessels have been shown to predict inflammation in a patient's tissue. The characteristics are video recorded via a camera inserted into the subject. At present, the analysis of the videos are done manually by visual inspection to determine inflammation. In our paper, we propose a technique to automatically classify the videos as containing inflammation or not. Our technique uses a convolutional neural network which classifies many different segments of images from a video and averages the predictions. Our network achieves an accuracy of 83%. We further divide inflammation into extreme and moderate inflammation and our network achieves an accuracy of 80%. This is the first step in developing methods that can perform a better quantitative analysis of inflammation to speed up medical diagnosis.

The "free app" distribution model has been extremely popular with end users and developers. Developers use mobile ads to generate revenue and cover the cost of developing these free apps. Although the apps are ostensibly free, they in fact do come with hidden costs. Our study of 21 real world Android apps shows that the use of ads leads to mobile apps that consume significantly more network data, have increased energy consumption, and require repeated changes to ad related code. We also found that complaints about these hidden costs are significant and can impact the ratings given to an app. Our results provide actionable information and guidance to software developers in weighing the tradeoffs of incorporating ads into their mobile apps.