The Visual Concept Detection Task (VCDT) of ImageCLEF 2008 is described. A database of 2,827 images were manually annotated with 17 concepts. Of these, 1,827 were used for training and 1,000 for testing the automated assignment of categories. In total 11 groups participated and submitted 53 runs. The runs were evaluated using ROC curves, from which the Area Under the Curve (AUC) and Equal Error...

Abstract One of the most common metrics to evaluate neural network classifiers is area under receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC). However, optimisation AUC as loss function during training not a standard procedure. Here we compare minimising cross-entropy (CE) and optimising directly. In particular, analyse landscape (LFL) approximate (appAUC) functions discover organisation this solut...

For many years now, there is a growing interest around ROC curve for characterizing machine learning performances. This is particularly due to the fact that in real-world problems misclassification costs are not known and thus, ROC curve and related metrics such as the Area Under ROC curve (AUC) can be a more meaningful performance measures. In this paper, we propose a quadratic programming bas...

a review of damages caused by landslide shows the need for studying effective parameters in landslide occurrence and prediction. this study aims to improve landslide prediction results for tutkabon region in gilan province. to this end, shannon entropy theory was employed for modeling and considering data uncertainty. slope, height, geomorphologic conditions, earth’s curve, closeness to river, ...