Improving classification accuracy by identifying and removing instances that should be misclassified

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2690-2697

  Smith, Michael R ^a   Martinez, Tony ^a  

^a 3361 TMCB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; DATA SETS; FILTERING METHOD; NOISE REDUCTION METHODS; NOISE REDUCTION TECHNIQUE; OUTLIER DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; DATA MINING; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRISMS; STATISTICS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 80054718586     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2011.6033571     Document Type: Conference Paper

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