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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 19.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2008 Feb;27(2):215–227. doi: 10.1109/TMI.2007.905822

Table I.

The conditions for the utilities that will degenerate the three decision lines into a single line. For a problem such as classification of a case as malignant, benign and normal, the utilities may be chosen as υ023=1 and υ1=0.

True class membership M B N
Assigned class membership
M υ0 UMB UMN
B υ1 υ2 υ3
N υ1 υ2 υ3