The class imbalance problem in TLC image classification

  • Authors:
  • António V. Sousa;Ana Maria Mendonça;Aurélio Campilho

  • Affiliations:
  • Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Porto, Portugal;Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, Porto, Portugal;Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, Porto, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • ICIAR'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Image Analysis and Recognition - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The paper presents the methodology developed to solve the class imbalanced problem that occurs in the classification of Thin-Layer Chromatography (TLC) images. The proposed methodology is based on re-sampling, and consists in the undersampling of the majority class (normal class), while the minority classes, which contain Lysosomal Storage Disorders (LSD) samples, are oversampled with the generation of synthetic samples. For image classification two approaches are presented, one based on a hierarchical classifier and another uses a multiclassifier system, where both classifiers are trained and tested using balanced data sets. The results demonstrate a better performance of the multiclassifier system using the balanced sets.