A class discriminability measure based on feature space partitioning

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 873-887

  Kohn, André F ^a   Nakano, Luís G M ^b   Silva, Miguel Oliveira E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Class discriminability measure; Class separability measure; Feature evaluation; Feature selection criterion function; Interclass distance measure; Variable selection criterion

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTIMIZATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SET THEORY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

BAYES ERROR CRITERION FUNCTION; CLASS DISCRIMINABILITY MEASURE; CLASS SEPARABILITY MEASURE; FEATURE EVALUATION; FEATURE SELECTION CRITERION FUNCTION; INTERCLASS DISTANCE MEASURE; SPACE PARTITIONING; VARIABLE SELECTION CRITERION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0030150966     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-3203(95)00122-0     Document Type: Article

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