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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2007
Applicants:
Asa Ben Hur, Seattle, WA (US);
André Elisseeff, Thalwil, CH;
Isabelle Guyon, Berkeley, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Health Discovery Corporation, Savannah, GA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06N 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A model selection method is provided for choosing the number of clusters, or more generally the parameters of a clustering algorithm. The algorithm is based on comparing the similarity between pairs of clustering runs on sub-samples or other perturbations of the data. High pairwise similarities show that the clustering represents a stable pattern in the data. The method is applicable to any clustering algorithm, and can also detect lack of structure. We show results on artificial and real data using a hierarchical clustering algorithm.