Multiclassification: Reject criteria for the Bayesian combiner

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1435-1447

  Foggia, P ^a   Sansone, C ^a   Tortorella, F ^b   Vento, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian combination; Chow's rule; Classification; Error reject trade off; Multi expert systems; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BAYESIAN COMBINATION; CHOW RULE; HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION; MULTIEXPERT SYSTEM;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032686948     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(98)00169-1     Document Type: Article

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