Enhancing decision-level fusion through cluster-based partitioning of feature setShow others and affiliations
2014 (English)In: The MENDEL Soft Computing journal : International Conference on Soft Computing MENDEL, ISSN 1803-3814, p. 259-264Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Feature set decomposition through cluster-based partitioning is the subject of this study. Approach is applied for the detection of mild laryngeal disorder from acoustic parameters of human voice using random forest (RF) as a base classier. Observations of sustained phonation (audio recordings of vowel /a/) had clinical diagnosis and severity level (from 0 to 3), but only healthy (severity 0) and mildly pathological (severity 1) cases were used. Diverse feature set (made of 26 variously sized subsets) was extracted from the voice signal. Feature-and decision-level fusions showed improvement over the best individual feature subset, but accuracy of fusion strategies did not differ signicantly. To boost accuracy of decision-level fusion, unsupervised decomposition for ensemble design was proposed. Decomposition was obtained by feature-space re-partitioning through clustering. Algorithms tested: a) basic k-Means; b) non-parametric MeanNN; c) adaptive anity propagation. Clustering by k-Means signicantly outperformed feature- and decision-level fusions.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Brno, Czech Republic: Mendel University in Brno , 2014. p. 259-264
Keywords [en]
random forest, ensemble of classiers, feature-space decomposition, clustering, k-Means, MeanNN, anity propagation, pathological voice
National Category
Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-26559DOI: 10.13140/2.1.2800.4481Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84938053992OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-26559DiVA, id: diva2:748735
Conference
20th International Conference on Soft Computing MENDEL 2014, Brno, Czech Republic, June 25 - 27, 2014
2014-09-222014-09-222025-10-01Bibliographically approved