TY - GEN
T1 - Incorporating contextual information in white blood cell identification
AU - Song, Xubo
AU - Abu-Mostafa, Yaser
AU - Sill, Joseph
AU - Kasdan, Harvey
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - In this paper we propose a technique to incorporate contextual information into object classification. In the real world there are cases where the identity of an object is ambiguous due to the noise in the measurements based on which the classification should be made. It is helpful to reduce the ambiguity by utilizing extra information referred to as context, which in our case is the identities of the accompanying objects. This technique is applied to white blood cell classification. Comparisons are made against "no context" approach, which demonstrates the superior classification performance achieved by using context. In our particular application, it significantly reduces false alarm rate and thus greatly reduces the cost due to expensive clinical tests.
AB - In this paper we propose a technique to incorporate contextual information into object classification. In the real world there are cases where the identity of an object is ambiguous due to the noise in the measurements based on which the classification should be made. It is helpful to reduce the ambiguity by utilizing extra information referred to as context, which in our case is the identities of the accompanying objects. This technique is applied to white blood cell classification. Comparisons are made against "no context" approach, which demonstrates the superior classification performance achieved by using context. In our particular application, it significantly reduces false alarm rate and thus greatly reduces the cost due to expensive clinical tests.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:68749114062
SN - 0262100762
SN - 9780262100762
T3 - Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems
SP - 950
EP - 956
BT - Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 10 - Proceedings of the 1997 Conference, NIPS 1997
PB - Neural information processing systems foundation
T2 - 11th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 1997
Y2 - 1 December 1997 through 6 December 1997
ER -