Partial AUC maximization in a linear combination of dichotomizers

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 44, Issue 10-11, 2011, Pages 2669-2677

  Ricamato, Maria Teresa ^a   Tortorella, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Combination of classifiers; Partial AUC; ROC analysis

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE ROC CURVE; BIOMETRIC DATABASE; CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; CLASSIFIER COMBINATION; COMBINATION OF CLASSIFIERS; COMBINATION RULES; ERROR RATE; IMBALANCED CLASS; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; PARTIAL AUC; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; ROC ANALYSIS; ROC CURVES;

BIOMETRICS;

EID: 79958818046     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2011.03.022     Document Type: Article

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