A minority class feature selection method

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

Volumn 7042 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 417-424

  Cuaya, German ^a   Muñoz Meléndez, Angélica ^a   Morales, Eduardo F ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

feature selection; medical domain; unbalanced data set

Indexed keywords

CLASS DISTRIBUTIONS; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; F-MEASURE; FEATURE SELECTION ALGORITHM; FEATURE SELECTION METHODS; MEDICAL DOMAINS; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; UNBALANCED DATA;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 81855161434     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-25085-9_49     Document Type: Conference Paper

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