Feature selection and classifier performance in computer-aided diagnosis: The effect of finite sample size

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1509-1522

  Sahiner, Berkman ^a   Chan, Heang Ping ^a   Petrick, Nicholas ^a   Wagner, Robert F ^a,b   Hadjiiski, Lubomir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Effects of finite sample size; Feature selection; Linear discriminant analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; SAMPLING;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFIER PERFORMANCE; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS(CAD); FEATURE SELECTION ALGORITHM; FINITE SAMPLE SIZES; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE;

EID: 0033863591     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.599017     Document Type: Article

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