Optimizing the area under a receiver operating characteristic curve with application to landmine detection

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 389-397

  Lee, Wen Hsiung ^b   Gader, Paul D ^a,c   Wilson, Joseph N ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b NIITEK Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Area under the ROC curve (AUC); Ground penetrating radar (GPR); Landmine detection; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE ROC CURVE (AUC); FALSE ALARM RATE; LANDMINE DETECTION; MEAN-SQUARE ERROR (MSE);

ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 33846606857     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.887018     Document Type: Article

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