http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=2&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=yuta.INNM.&s2=fujitsu.ASNM.&OS=IN/yuta+AND+AN/fujitsu&RS=IN/yuta+AND+AN/fujitsu United States Patent 7,725,413 Yuta May 25, 2010 Generating two-class classification model for predicting chemical toxicity Abstract A method includes: a) preparing as training data a sample set that contains a plurality of samples belonging to a first class and a plurality of samples belonging to a second class; b) generating, by performing discriminant analysis on the sample set, a first discriminant function having a high classification characteristic for the first class and a second discriminant function having a high classification characteristic for the second class; c) by classifying the sample set using the first and second discriminant functions, isolating any sample whose classification results by the first and second discriminant functions do not match; d) forming a new sample set by grouping together any sample thus isolated, and repeating b) and c) by using the new sample set; and e) causing d) to stop when the number of samples each of whose classification results do not match in c) has decreased to or below a predetermined value. Inventors: Yuta; Kohtarou (Kawasaki, JP) Assignee: Fujitsu Limited (Kawasaki, JP) Appl. No.: 12/453,247 Filed: May 4, 2009