Review Article

Biomedical Image Classification in a Big Data Architecture Using Machine Learning Algorithms

Table 1

Comparison of classification methods in biomedical image based on the literature [32, 46].

Decision treesNeural networksNaïve bayesKNNSVMRule-learning

Accuracy∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗
Speed of classification∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗
Tolerance to redundant attributes∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗
Speed of learning∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗
Tolerance to missing values∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗
Tolerance to highly interdependent attributes∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗
Dealing with discrete/binary/continues attributes∗∗∗∗∗∗∗ (not discrete)∗∗∗ (not continuous)∗∗∗ (not directly discrete)∗∗ (Not discrete)∗∗∗ (not directly discrete)
Tolerance to noise∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗
Dealing with a danger of overfitting∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗
Attempts for incremental learning∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗

∗∗∗∗Very good. ∗∗∗Good. ∗∗Fairly Good. Bad.