An ensemble classifier learning approach to ROC optimization

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 679-682

  Gao, Sheng ^a   Lee, Chin Hui ^b   Lim, Joo Hwee ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

CLASSIFIER DESIGN; ENSEMBLE APPROXIMATION; OPERATING POINTS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC (ROC);

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 34047220859     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2006.246     Document Type: Conference Paper

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