Detailed Description

template<class TDataContainer>
class itk::ClassifierBase< TDataContainer >

Base class for classifier objects.

ClassifierBase is the base class for classifier objects. It provides the basic function definitions that are inherent to classifier objects.

This is the SuperClass for the classifier framework. This is an abstract class defining an interface for all the classification objects available through the classifier framework in the ITK toolkit.

The basic functionality of the classifier framework base class is to classify each data point in given a data set to one of the N classes where N is either specified by the user or automatically determined using methods such as k-means clustering techniques.

The classifier framework supports two types of data where (1) The input is a series of data points that needs to be classified. These points may be in the form of images where the pixels can be viewed as a list and the spatial location of the pixels in not of a concern. This classification can be carried out via the use of SampleClassifier.

(2)The input is specifically an image and the pixels cannot be viewed as a list of pixels since the spatial location of the pixel in needed for various algorithmic implementations (such as the Markov Random Field based approached). This type of data can be classified via the use of GeneralImageClassifierBase.

The user will call the Update() function to run the classification process.

The user must generate the membership function before asking for data to be classified. One can automatically generate the membership function from the training data via the use of itkImageModelEstimator class. The membership functions have to be populated by using the AddMembershipFunction. If membership functions are not set prior to calling for classification, an exception in thrown.

The user can have more than one membership function, and can have one for each class. The order of the membership calculator becomes the class label for the class that is represented by the membership calculator.

The fourth argument is the type of decision rule. The main role of a decision rule is comparing the return values of the membership calculators. However, decision rules can include some prior knowledge that can improve the result. To plug in the decision rule, use SetDecisionRule method.

Before the Update method is called to start the classification process, plug in all necessary parts (one or more membership functions, a decision rule, and the unclassified data).

This class is templated over the container type.

Definition at line 86 of file itkClassifierBase.h.

Public Types
typedef Statistics::DecisionRule	DecisionRuleType

typedef TDataContainer::ValueType	MeasurementVectorType

typedef MembershipFunctionType::Pointer	MembershipFunctionPointer

typedef std::vector < MembershipFunctionPointer >	MembershipFunctionPointerVector

typedef Statistics::MembershipFunctionBase < MeasurementVectorType >	MembershipFunctionType

typedef ClassifierBase	Self

typedef LightProcessObject	Superclass

Public Types inherited from itk::LightProcessObject
typedef SmartPointer< const Self >	ConstPointer

typedef SmartPointer< Self >	Pointer

typedef LightProcessObject	Self

typedef Object	Superclass

Public Types inherited from itk::Object
typedef SmartPointer< const Self >	ConstPointer

typedef SmartPointer< Self >	Pointer

typedef Object	Self

typedef LightObject	Superclass

Public Types inherited from itk::LightObject
typedef SmartPointer< const Self >	ConstPointer

typedef SmartPointer< Self >	Pointer

typedef LightObject	Self

Public Member Functions
unsigned int	AddMembershipFunction (MembershipFunctionType *function)

DecisionRuleType *	GetDecisionRule (void)

const MembershipFunctionType *	GetMembershipFunction (unsigned int index) const

virtual const char *	GetNameOfClass () const

virtual const unsigned int &	GetNumberOfClasses ()

unsigned int	GetNumberOfMembershipFunctions ()

void	SetDecisionRule (DecisionRuleType *ptrToDecisionRule)

virtual void	SetNumberOfClasses (unsigned int _arg)

void	Update ()

Public Member Functions inherited from itk::LightProcessObject
virtual void	AbortGenerateDataOff ()

virtual void	AbortGenerateDataOn ()

virtual ::itk::LightObject::Pointer	CreateAnother (void) const

virtual const bool &	GetAbortGenerateData ()

virtual void	SetAbortGenerateData (bool _arg)

virtual void	UpdateOutputData ()

void	UpdateProgress (float amount)

virtual void	SetProgress (float _arg)

virtual const float &	GetProgress ()

Public Member Functions inherited from itk::Object
unsigned long	AddObserver (const EventObject &event, Command *)

unsigned long	AddObserver (const EventObject &event, Command *) const

virtual void	DebugOff () const

virtual void	DebugOn () const

Command *	GetCommand (unsigned long tag)

bool	GetDebug () const

MetaDataDictionary &	GetMetaDataDictionary (void)

const MetaDataDictionary &	GetMetaDataDictionary (void) const

virtual ModifiedTimeType	GetMTime () const

virtual const TimeStamp &	GetTimeStamp () const

bool	HasObserver (const EventObject &event) const

void	InvokeEvent (const EventObject &)

void	InvokeEvent (const EventObject &) const

virtual void	Modified () const

virtual void	Register () const

void	RemoveAllObservers ()

void	RemoveObserver (unsigned long tag)

void	SetDebug (bool debugFlag) const

void	SetMetaDataDictionary (const MetaDataDictionary &rhs)

virtual void	SetReferenceCount (int)

virtual void	UnRegister () const

Public Member Functions inherited from itk::LightObject
virtual void	Delete ()

virtual int	GetReferenceCount () const

	itkCloneMacro (Self)

void	Print (std::ostream &os, Indent indent=0) const

Protected Member Functions
	ClassifierBase ()

virtual void	GenerateData ()=0

void	PrintSelf (std::ostream &os, Indent indent) const

	~ClassifierBase ()

Protected Member Functions inherited from itk::LightProcessObject
	LightProcessObject ()

	~LightProcessObject ()

Protected Member Functions inherited from itk::Object
	Object ()

bool	PrintObservers (std::ostream &os, Indent indent) const

virtual void	SetTimeStamp (const TimeStamp &time)

virtual	~Object ()

Protected Member Functions inherited from itk::LightObject
virtual LightObject::Pointer	InternalClone () const

	LightObject ()

virtual void	PrintHeader (std::ostream &os, Indent indent) const

virtual void	PrintTrailer (std::ostream &os, Indent indent) const

virtual	~LightObject ()

Private Member Functions
	ClassifierBase (const Self &)

void	operator= (const Self &)

Private Attributes
DecisionRuleType::Pointer	m_DecisionRule

MembershipFunctionPointerVector	m_MembershipFunctions

unsigned int	m_NumberOfClasses

Additional Inherited Members
Static Public Member Functions inherited from itk::LightProcessObject
static Pointer	New ()

Protected Types inherited from itk::LightObject
typedef int	InternalReferenceCountType

Protected Attributes inherited from itk::LightObject
InternalReferenceCountType	m_ReferenceCount

SimpleFastMutexLock	m_ReferenceCountLock