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How Many Classifiers Do I Need?

Combining multiple classifiers promises to increase performance and robustness of a classification task. Currently however, the understanding which combination scheme should be used and the ability to quantify the expected benefit is inadequate. This paper attempts to quantify the performance and robustness gain for different combination schemes and for two classifier types. The results of the ...

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Dear editors, " He who kills himself is running after an image that he built of himself. One never kills himself only to exist.. "-André Malraux French writer (1901-1976) Last January, Quebec's National Public Health Institute published a portrait of the suicide status in the province. The media coverage highlighted the main conclusion that the overall annual suicide rates were decreasing and t...

Interventional cardiology manpower needs: how many of us are there? How many should there be? How many will we need in the future?

The manpower necessary to handle interventional procedures in the United States remains a subject of great uncertainty. The American College of Cardiology predicted a glut of cardiologists in a 1994 position statement [1], and Federal policy and budget decisions reduced financial support for cardiology training. As a result cardiology training programs were downsized [2]. Between 1990 and 1995 ...

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I Will Forgive You--This Time.

Although adenocarcinoma of the prostate persists in being the most common form of cancer in men, its clinical behavior does not maintain this type of consistency, wavering from extremely aggressive fatal cancers to clinically insignificant, incidental entities. The prevalence of prostate cancer at autopsy is remarkably high, increasing from 20% in men in their 50s to up to 80% in men 70 to 80 y...