Training multiclass classifiers by maximizing the volume under the ROC surface

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4739 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 878-885

  Dreiseitl, Stephan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES UPPER AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Discrimination analysis; Machine learning; Multi class ROC analysis

Indexed keywords

GRAPH THEORY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DISCRIMINATION ANALYSIS; MANN-WHITNEY U-STATISTICS; MULTI-CLASS ROC ANALYSIS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 38449123321     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75867-9_110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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