Defect classification of highly noisy NDE data using classifier ensembles

Kai F. Goebel; Weizhong Yan; Neil H. W. Eklund; Xiao Hu; Viswanath Avasarala; Jose R. Celaya

doi:10.1117/12.659704

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30 March 2006 Defect classification of highly noisy NDE data using classifier ensembles

Kai F. Goebel, Weizhong Yan, Neil H. W. Eklund, Xiao Hu, Viswanath Avasarala, Jose R. Celaya

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Proceedings Volume 6167, Smart Structures and Materials 2006: Smart Sensor Monitoring Systems and Applications; 61671O (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.659704
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2006, San Diego, California, United States

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In this paper, we present a feature selection and classification approach that was used to assess highly noisy sensor data from a NDE field study. Multiple, heterogeneous NDT sensors were employed to examine the solid structure. The goal was to differentiate between two types of phenomena occurring in a solid structure where one phenomenon was benign, the other was malignant. Manual distinction between these two types is almost impossible. To address these issues, we used sensor validation techniques to select the best available sensor that had the least noise effects and the best defect signature in the region of interest. Hundreds of features were formulated and extracted from data of the selected sensors. Next, we employed separability measures and correlation measures to select the most promising set of features. Because the NDE sensors poorly described the different defect types under consideration, the resulting features also exhibited poor separability. The focus of this paper is on how one can improve the classification under these constraints while minimizing the risk of overfitting (the number of field data was small). Results are shown from a number of different classifiers and classifier ensembles that were tuned to a set true positive rate using the Neyman-Pearson criterion.

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Kai F. Goebel, Weizhong Yan, Neil H. W. Eklund, Xiao Hu, Viswanath Avasarala, and Jose R. Celaya "Defect classification of highly noisy NDE data using classifier ensembles", Proc. SPIE 6167, Smart Structures and Materials 2006: Smart Sensor Monitoring Systems and Applications, 61671O (30 March 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.659704

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