Exploiting Ordinal Class Structure in Multi-Class Classification: Application to Ovarian Cancer
By Burook Misganaw, Student Member, IEEE and M. Vidyasagar, Life Fellow, IEEE
Published June 30, 2015.
In multi-class machine learning problems, one needs to distinguish between nominal labels which do not have any natural ordering, and ordinal labels which are ordered. Ordinal labels are pervasive in biology, …