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Selecting Multiple Biomarker Subsets with Similarly Effective Binary Classification Performances
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Indexes for three-class classification performance assessment--an empirical comparison.

Mehul P Sampat1, Amit C Patel, Yuhling Wang

  • 1Center for Neurological Imaging, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA. mehul.sampat@ieee.org

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine : a Publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
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Evaluating multiclass classifier performance is crucial. The Scurfield method offers detailed insights, while He and Nakas methods provide volume under surface (VUS) with variance for statistical comparisons.

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Published on: October 11, 2018

Area of Science:

  • Machine Learning
  • Biomedical Informatics
  • Statistical Modeling

Background:

  • Accurate assessment of classifier performance is vital for comparing methods and informing system design.
  • Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis is standard for two-class problems but inadequate for multiclass scenarios.
  • Existing methods for multiclass classifier assessment lack widespread acceptance.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To critically review proposed methods for assessing multiclass classifier performance.
  • To compare the strengths and weaknesses of various multiclass assessment techniques.
  • To identify optimal methods for evaluating complex classification tasks.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing literature on multiclass classifier performance assessment.
  • Empirical comparison of selected methods using four three-class case studies.
  • Evaluation of three popular classification techniques against multiple performance indexes.

Main Results:

  • The Scurfield method provides the most comprehensive description of classifier performance and error sources.
  • He and Nakas methods offer practical utility by providing the volume under surface (VUS) and its variance estimate.
  • The VUS and variance estimates enable statistically sound comparisons between classification algorithms.

Conclusions:

  • The Scurfield method is recommended for detailed performance analysis and error source identification.
  • He and Nakas methods are valuable for practical applications requiring statistical comparison of classifiers.
  • The reviewed methods offer diverse approaches to enhance the reliability of multiclass classification assessments.