Many of today’s large data sets must be reduced in size before invoking inductive algorithms, due to the costs associated with procuring/processing the data, and because most of these algorithms cannot handle enormous amounts of data. In these cases it is important to select the training data carefully so the impact on classifier performance is minimized. A tacit assumption behind much research...

In this paper, a novel pattern classification approach is proposed by regularizing the classifier learning to maximize mutual information between the classification response and the true class label. We argue that, with the learned classifier, the uncertainty of the true class label of a data sample should be reduced by knowing its classification response as much as possible. The reduced uncert...

The performance of a classifier can be improved by abstaining on uncertain instance classifications. The transformation from the original Receiver Operator Characteristic (ROC) curve to the curve obtained by abstention is provided. We include proofs on dominance of this new ROC curve to aid classifier selection and to show the effectiveness of the approach. For specific cost and class distribut...

Keywords: parametric, classifier, similarity-based. A parametric classifier builds class models and classifies test points as being from classes that they are most likely to belong to, given the class models. Over the summer, I worked with Professor to develop a parametric classifier that builds models based on only the similarity between samples. The parametric clas-sifier was compared to othe...

Fault diagnosis has always been an essential aspect of control system design. This is necessary due to the growing demand for increased performance and safety of industrial systems is discussed. Support vector machine classifier is a new technique based on statistical learning theory and is designed to reduce structural bias. Support vector machine classification in many applications in v...

In this paper we tackle the problem of unconstrained handwritten character recognition using different classification strategies. For such an aim, four multilayer perceptron classifiers (MLP) are built and used into three different classification strategies: combination of two 26– class classifiers; a 26–metaclass classifier and a 52– class classifier. Experimental results on the NIST SD19 data...

This paper describes a VLSI architecture for classification of multiand hyperspectral imagery using Fuzzy Logic with trapezoidal membership functions. The fuzzy classifier is implemented using a rule-based approach, where each class is defined as a set of sub rules. There is only one sub rule associated to each band within a class. Each sub rule is implemented as a dedicated parallel hardware. ...

Background: There has been much discussion amongst automated software defect prediction researchers regarding use of the precision and false positive rate classifier performance metrics. Aim: To demonstrate and explain why failing to report precision when using data with highly imbalanced class distributions may provide an overly optimistic view of classifier performance. Method: Well documente...

An approach to the construction of classifiers from imbalanced datasets is described. A dataset is imbalanced if the classification categories are not approximately equally represented. Often real-world data sets are predominately composed of “normal” examples with only a small percentage of “abnormal” or “interesting” examples. It is also the case that the cost of misclassifying an abnormal (i...

background: the time and frequency features of motor unit action potentials (muaps) extracted from electromyographic (emg) signal provide discriminative information for diagnosis and treatment of neuromuscular disorders. however, the results of conventional automatic diagnosis methods using muap features is not convincing yet. objective: the main goal in designing a muap characterization system...