Application of data mining methods as a decision support system has a great benefit to predict survival of new patients. It also has a great potential for health researchers to investigate the relationship between risk factors and cancer survival. But due to the imbalanced nature of datasets associated with breast cancer survival, the accuracy of survival prognosis models is a challenging issue...

This paper asks at what level of class imbalance one-class classifiers outperform two-class classifiers in credit scoring problems in which class imbalance, referred to as the low-default portfolio problem, is a serious issue. The question is answered by comparing the performance of a variety of one-class and two-class classifiers on a selection of credit scoring datasets as the class imbalance...

Learning in imbalanced datasets is a pervasive problem prevalent in a wide variety of real-world applications. In imbalanced datasets, the class of interest is generally a small fraction of the total instances, but misclassification of such instances is often expensive. While there is a significant body of research on the class imbalance problem for binary class datasets, multi-class datasets h...

We use a geometric digraph family called class cover catch digraphs (CCCDs) to tackle the class imbalance problem in statistical classification. CCCDs provide graph theoretic solutions to the class cover problem and have been employed in classification. We assess the classification performance of CCCD classifiers by extensive Monte Carlo simulations, comparing them with other classifiers common...

Recently, the class imbalance problem in neural networks, is receiving growing attention in works of machine learning and data mining. This problem appears when the samples of some classes are much smaller than those in the other classes. The classes with small size can be ignored in the learning process and the convergence of these classes is very slow. This paper studies empirically the class...

Class imbalance problem is one of the greatest challenges in machine learning and data mining researches, which has acquired significant research interest from academics, industries and research teams in recent years. Researchers have proposed many techniques to handle the class imbalance problem, including resampling, new algorithms, and feature selection. The class imbalance problem is even m...