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MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 125, 2017
21st International Conference on Circuits, Systems, Communications and Computers (CSCC 2017)
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Article Number | 04003 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Computers | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201712504003 | |
Published online | 04 October 2017 |
Evaluation of diagnostic classifiers using artificial clinical cases
Institute of Computer and Information Systems, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
* Corresponding author: andrzej.walczak@wat.edu.pl
Evaluation of classifiers in diagnosis support systems is a non-trivial task. It can be done in a form of controlled and blinded clinical trial, which is often difficult and costly. We propose a new method for generating artificial medical cases from a knowledge base, utilizing the concept of so-called medical diamonds. Cases generated using this method have features analogous to that of double-blinded trial and, thus, can be used for measuring sensitivity and specificity of diagnostic classifiers. This is easy and low-cost method of evaluation and comparison of classifiers in diagnosis support systems. We demonstrate that this method is able to produce valuable results when used for evaluation of similarity-based classifiers as well as shallow and deep neural networks.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2017
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