Neural network objective functions for detection problems

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1997
Authors
Weber David
Breitenbach Jaco
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Abstract
We examine the effects of the choice of neural network objective (criterion) functions on the ability of the neural network to perform detection. The experiments are performed using a multilayer perceptron with the mean square error, classification figure of merit (CFM), maximally flat CFM and the modified perceptron error objective functions. We develop a thresholding scheme for the outputs of the neural network in order to obtain receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves for the various objective functions. We perform preliminary tests on a breast cancer cell detection problem.
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Algorithms, Error detection, Probability, Classification figure of merit (CFM), Receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curves, Neural networks
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Proceedings of the South African Symposium on Communications and Signal Processing, COMSIG