Linear model combining by optimizing the Area under the ROC curve

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 119-122

  Tax, David M J ^a   Duin, Robert P W ^a   Arzhaeva, Yulia ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Area under the ROC curve; Chest radiography; Class imbalance; Combining classifiers; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DISEASES; ERROR ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOGRAPHY;

BASE CLASSIFIERS; CHEST RADIOGRAPHY; CLASS IMBALANCE; MISCLASSIFICATION COSTS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 34147184213     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2006.766     Document Type: Conference Paper

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