A CART extention using Quadratic Decision Borders

Karsten Hartelius

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    Abstract

    In this article we put forward an extention to the hierarchical CART classification method which uses quadratic decision borders. The original CART applies univariate splits on individual variables as well as splits on combinations of variables to recursively partition the feature-space into subsets which are successively more class-homogeneous. Guided by the fact that class-distributions in feature-space are very often hyper-elliptical shaped, we give an extension to the original CART which also uses quadratic shaped decision borders which can be modelled by a mean-vector and a dispersion matrix. We propose a scheme for finding a good starting guess for a quadratic decision border, and a scheme for subsequently improving the guess, through adjustments of the size and shape of the decision border.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings from The 8th Danish Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis
    Place of PublicationCopenhagen
    PublisherDIKU TRYK
    Publication date1999
    Pages67-73
    Publication statusPublished - 1999
    EventThe 8th Danish Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis - Copenhagen, Denmark
    Duration: 26 Aug 199926 Aug 1999
    Conference number: 8

    Conference

    ConferenceThe 8th Danish Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis
    Number8
    Country/TerritoryDenmark
    CityCopenhagen
    Period26/08/199926/08/1999

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