Hypervolume under the ROC hypersurface of a "near-guessing" ideal observer in a three-class classification task

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5, Issue 26, 2004, Pages 128-137

  Edwards, Darrin C ^a   Metz, Charles E ^a   Nishikawa, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

ROC analysis; ROC performance metrics; Three class classification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER-AIDED DIAGNOSIS (CAD); RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS (ROC) ANALYSIS; ROC PERFORMANCE METRICS; THREE-CLASS CLASSIFICATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; DECISION THEORY; DIAGNOSIS; METRIC SYSTEM; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 12144249153     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.536068     Document Type: Conference Paper

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