A new evidential neural network classifier is proposed to make full use of the data information and to improve the classification performance and an implementation of multiple classifier systems based on the new evidential neural network classifier is presented. Firstly
the ambiguous data contained in the training data are considered as a new category-compound class and the original training data are reconstructed into a new data set with compound classes. Then the evidential neural network classifiers are trained using the new data set
and classified outputs are evidentially modeled with the belief function. A variety of rules of evidence combination is used to realize multiclassifiers fusion. Experimental results on the artificial data sets and some UCI data sets and comparisons with some other existing multiclassifier systems based on neural networks show that the proposed multiclassifier systems effectively improve the classification accuracy. Especially
comparisons with the neural network multiclassifier systems based on the voting law on the data sets Magic 04 and Waveform2 show that the proposed multiclassifier systems have about 6% and 10% increases in classification accuracy
respectively.
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