Facing imbalanced classes through aggregation of classifiers

Proceedings - 14th International conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 43-48

  Molinara, M ^a   Ricamato, M T ^a   Tortorella, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA DISTRIBUTIONS; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAMS; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS; OVER SAMPLINGS; PREDICTION ACCURACIES; REAL WORLDS; TRAINED CLASSIFIERS; TRAINING SETS; UNDER SAMPLINGS; UNDERFILLING;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

CLASSIFIERS;

EID: 48149083773     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIAP.2007.4362755     Document Type: Conference Paper

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