An ensemble classification approach for melanoma diagnosis

Memetic Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 233-240

  Schaefer, Gerald ^a   Krawczyk, Bartosz ^b   Celebi, M Emre ^c   Iyatomi, Hitoshi ^d  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Imbalanced classification; Ensemble classification; Medical imaging; Melanoma diagnosis; Skin lesion analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DERMATOLOGY; DISEASES; LARGE DATASET; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; TEXTURES;

CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; CLASSIFIER ENSEMBLES; ENSEMBLE CLASSIFICATION; ENSEMBLE LEARNING APPROACH; IMBALANCED CLASSIFICATION; INDIVIDUAL CLASSIFIERS; SKIN LESION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84925487043     PISSN: 18659284     EISSN: 18659292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12293-014-0144-8     Document Type: Article

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