Fusing Output Information in Neural Networks: Ensemble Performs Better

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 2265-2268

  Wu, Yunfeng ^a   Arribas, Juan I ^b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Information fusion; Model selection; Neural network ensembles; Probability estimation; Regularization; Statistical pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKPROPAGATION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; ESTIMATION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS; VECTORS;

INFORMATION FUSIONS; MODEL SELECTION; NEURAL NETWORK ENSEMBLES; PROBABILITY ESTIMATION; REGULARIZATION; STATISTICAL PATTERN RECOGNITION;

MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 1542301061     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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