Objective Evaluation Metrics for Automatic Classification of EEG Events

Autor: Meysam Golmohammadi, Iyad Obeid, Saeedeh Ziyabari, Vinit Shah, Joseph Picone
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Biomedical Signal Processing ISBN: 9783030674939
Popis: The evaluation of machine learning algorithms in biomedical fields for applications involving sequential data lacks both rigor and standardization. Common quantitative scalar evaluation metrics such as sensitivity and specificity can often be misleading and not accurately integrate application requirements. Evaluation metrics must ultimately reflect the needs of users yet be sufficiently sensitive to guide algorithm development. For example, feedback from critical care clinicians who use automated event detection software in clinical applications has been overwhelmingly emphatic that a low false alarm rate, typically measured in units of the number of errors per 24 h, is the single most important criterion for user acceptance. Though using a single metric is not often as insightful as examining performance over a range of operating conditions, there is, nevertheless, a need for a single scalar figure of merit.
Databáze: OpenAIRE