NDLI: A new Mercer sigmoid kernel for clinical data classification

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Carrington, A.M. Fieguth, P.W. Chen, H.H.
Copyright Year	2014
Description	Author affiliation: Sch. of Public Health & Health Syst., Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada (Chen, H.H.) \|\| Dept. of Syst. Design Eng., Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada (Carrington, A.M.; Fieguth, P.W.)
Abstract	In classification with Support Vector Machines, only Mercer kernels, i.e. valid kernels, such as the Gaussian RBF kernel, are widely accepted and thus suitable for clinical data. Practitioners would also like to use the sigmoid kernel, a non-Mercer kernel, but its range of validity is difficult to determine, and even within range its validity is in dispute. Despite these shortcomings the sigmoid kernel is used by some, and two kernels in the literature attempt to emulate and improve upon it. We propose the first Mercer sigmoid kernel, that is therefore trustworthy for the classification of clinical data. We show the similarity between the Mercer sigmoid kernel and the sigmoid kernel and, in the process, identify a normalization technique that improves the classification accuracy of the latter. The Mercer sigmoid kernel achieves the best mean accuracy on three clinical data sets, detecting melanoma in skin lesions better than the most popular kernels; while with non-clinical data sets it has no significant difference in median accuracy as compared with the Gaussian RBF kernel. It consistently classifies some points correctly that the Gaussian RBF kernel does not and vice versa.
Sponsorship	IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Soc.
Starting Page	6397
Ending Page	6401
File Size	795911
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424479290
ISSN	1557170X
DOI	10.1109/EMBC.2014.6945092
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-08-26
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Kernel Support vector machines Accuracy Skin Lesions Educational institutions Heart Mercer Kernel Clinical Signal Processing Clinical Data Classification Support Vector Machine Sigmoid Kernel
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Signal Processing Biomedical Engineering Health Informatics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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