Specializing for predicting obesity and its co-morbidities

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2009-10-01
Goldstein, Ira
Uzuner, Oezlem
We present specializing, a method for combining classifiers for multi-class classification. Specializing trains one specialist classifier per class and utilizes each specialist to distinguish that class from all others in a one-versus-all manner. It then supplements the specialist classifiers with a catch-all classifier that performs multi-class classification across all classes. We refer to the resulting combined classifier as a specializing classifier.
JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS

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I. Goldstein and O. Uzuner, “Specializing for predicting obesity and its co-morbidities,” JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS, pp. 873–886, 2009, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/65824.