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Abstract #66538 Published in IGR 17-3
Learning ECOC Code Matrix for Multiclass Classification with Application to Glaucoma Diagnosis
Bai X; Niwas SI; Lin W; Ju BF; Kwoh CK; Wang L; Sng CC; Aquino MC; Chew PTJournal of Medical Systems 2016; 40: 78
Classification of different mechanisms of angle closure glaucoma (ACG) is important for medical diagnosis. Error-correcting output code (ECOC) is an effective approach for multiclass classification. In this study, we propose a new ensemble learning method based on ECOC with application to classification of four ACG mechanisms. The dichotomizers in ECOC are first optimized individually to increase their accuracy and diversity (or interdependence) which is beneficial to the ECOC framework. Specifically, the best feature set is determined for each possible dichotomizer and a wrapper approach is applied to evaluate the classification accuracy of each dichotomizer on the training dataset using cross-validation. The separability of the ECOC codes is maximized by selecting a set of competitive dichotomizers according to a new criterion, in which a regularization term is introduced in consideration of the binary classification performance of each selected dichotomizer. The proposed method is experimentally applied for classifying four ACG mechanisms. The eye images of 152 glaucoma patients are collected by using anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) and then segmented, from which 84 features are extracted. The weighted average classification accuracy of the proposed method is 87.65 % based on the results of leave-one-out cross-validation (LOOCV), which is much better than that of the other existing ECOC methods. The proposed method achieves accurate classification of four ACG mechanisms which is promising to be applied in diagnosis of glaucoma.
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Classification:
15 Miscellaneous
9.3.1 Acute primary angle closure glaucoma (pupillary block) (Part of: 9 Clinical forms of glaucomas > 9.3 Primary angle closure glaucomas)
9.3.5 Primary angle closure (Part of: 9 Clinical forms of glaucomas > 9.3 Primary angle closure glaucomas)
6.9.2.1 Anterior (Part of: 6 Clinical examination methods > 6.9 Computerized image analysis > 6.9.2 Optical coherence tomography)