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On the Use of Nominal and Ordinal Classifiers for the Discrimination of States of Development in Fish Oocytes

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The analysis of microscopic images of fish gonad cells (oocytes) is a useful tool to estimate parameters of fish reproductive ecology and to analyze fish population dynamics. The study of oocyte dynamics is needed to understand ovary development and reproductive cycle of fish. Oocytes go through different developmental states in a continuum temporal sequence providing an interesting example of ordinal classification, which is not exploited by the current oocyte analysis software. This promising paradigm of machine learning known as ordinal classification or ordinal regression focus on classification problems where there exist a natural order between the classes, thus requiring specific methods and evaluation metrics. In this paper we compare 11 ordinal and 15 nominal state-of-the-art classifiers using oocytes of three fish species (Merluccius merluccius, Trisopterus luscus and Reinhardtius hippoglossoides). The best results are achieved by SVMOD, an ordinal decomposition method of the labelling space based on the Support Vector Machine, varying strongly with the number of states for each specie (about 95 and 80 % of accuracy with three and six states respectively). The classifiers designed specially for ordinal classification are able to capture the underlying nature of the state ordering much better than common nominal classifiers. This is demonstrated by several metrics specially designed to measure misclassification errors associated to states far in the ranking scale.

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We acknowledge support from the “Junta de Andalucía” under project P11-TIC-7508, from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) under projects TIN2011-22935, TIN2012-32262 and TIN2014-54583-C2-1-R, and from FEDER funds

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Engineering, University of Loyola Andalucía, Third Building, 14004, Córdoba, Spain

    M. Pérez-Ortiz

  2. Department of Computer Science and Numerical Analysis, University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain

    P. A. Gutiérrez & C. Hervás-Martínez

  3. CITIUS: Centro de Investigación en Tecnoloxías da Información da USC, University of Santiago de Compostela, Campus Vida, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    M. Fernández-Delgado & E. Cernadas

  4. Department of Fisheries Ecology, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas, Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Vigo, Spain

    R. Domínguez-Petit

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Pérez-Ortiz, M., Fernández-Delgado, M., Cernadas, E. et al. On the Use of Nominal and Ordinal Classifiers for the Discrimination of States of Development in Fish Oocytes. Neural Process Lett 44, 555–570 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11063-015-9476-8

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