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title: "An Appraisal of a Decision Tree Approach to Image Classification"
authors:
  - "B. A. Shepherd"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/116"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/0116.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1983
pages: "473-474"
track: "Learning and Knowledge Acquisition"
keywords:
---

# An Appraisal of a Decision Tree Approach to Image Classification

B. A. Shepherd

*Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 473-474.

## Abstract

This paper investigates the applicability to a shape-recognition problem of a concept learning algorithm which generates decis i on rules from examples. A comprehensive analysis of this a l gorithm applied to an industrial vision problem is described . This problem has no obvious ·best ' solution and much effort has been devoted to performing a realistic appraisal of the algorithm by making a detailed set of comparisons with the performances of appropriate alternative classifiers . Results presented show the algorithm to be comparable in performance with the alternat i ve classifiers but superior in terms of both the cost of making a class i fication and also the intelligibility of the solution.