Automatic model selection in cost-sensitive boosting

Information Fusion

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-10

  Merler, Stefano ^a   Furlanello, Cesare ^a   Larcher, Barbara ^a   Sboner, Andrea ^a  

^a ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automated medical diagnosis; Boosting; Classification trees; Cost sensitive classification; Melanoma

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DERMATOLOGY; SKIN; TUMORS;

COST-SENSITIVE BOOSTING;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0037368936     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1566-2535(02)00100-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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