Minimax classifiers based on neural networks

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-39

  Alaiz Rodríguez, Rocío ^a   Guerrero Curieses, Alicia ^b   Cid Sueiro, Jesús ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Minimax decision rules; Neural networks; Pattern classification; Uncertainty in priors

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECISION THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBABILITY;

GRADIENT-BASED ALGORITHMS; MINIMAX CLASSIFIERS; MINIMAX DECISION RULES;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 4644273126     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2004.05.007     Document Type: Article

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