Hybrid wavelet-support vector classification of waveforms

  • Authors:
  • Daniel J. Strauss;Gabriele Steidl

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Mannheim, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, D-68131 Mannheim, Germany and Key Numerics, Scientific Computing & Computational Intelligence, D-66763 Dillingen, Germany;University of Mannheim, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, D-68131 Mannheim, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The support vector machine (SVM) represents a new and very promising technique for machine learning tasks involving classification, regression or novelty detection. Improvements of its generalization ability can be achieved by incorporating prior knowledge of the task at hand.We propose a new hybrid algorithm consisting of signal-adapted wavelet decompositions and hard margin SVMs for waveform classification. The adaptation of the wavelet decompositions is tailored for hard margin SV classifiers with radial basis functions as kernels. It allows the optimization of the representation of the data before training the SVM and does not suffer from computationally expensive validation techniques.We assess the performance of our algorithm against the background of current concerns in medical diagnostics, namely the classification of endocardial electrograms and the detection of otoacoustic emissions. Here the performance of hard margin SVMs can significantly be improved by our adapted preprocessing step.