Learning pattern classification tasks with imbalanced data sets

Authors

Son Lam Phung, University of WollongongFollow
Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, University of WollongongFollow
Giang Hoang Nguyen, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

31199

Publication Details

Nguyen, G. Hoang., Bouzerdoum, A. & Phung, S. (2009). Learning pattern classification tasks with imbalanced data sets. In P. Yin (Eds.), Pattern recognition (pp. 193-208). Vukovar, Croatia: In-Teh.

Abstract

This chapter is concerned with the class imbalance problem, which has been recognised as a crucial problem in machine learning and data mining. The problem occurs when there are significantly fewer training instances of one class compared to another class.