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Table 2 Summary of configurations defined for the tests, where α is the adjustment rate, γ the discount factor and n the number of retrieved nodules

From: Automatic weighing attribute to retrieve similar lung cancer nodules

TA

WSA

InV

n

α

γ

n

α

γ

n

α

γ

10

0.2

0.7

10

0.2

0.7

10

0.2

0.7

15

0.3

0.8

15

0.3

0.8

15

0.3

0.8

20

0.4

0.9

20

0.4

0.9

20

0.4

0.9

  1. Bolded values refer to values that, empirically, reached good values during development and test of the algorithm. So, we defined it as the reference to generate the test configuration