ClassificaIO: machine learning for classification graphical user interface

Abstract

Machine learning methods are being used routinely by scientists in many research areas, typically requiring significant statistical and programing knowledge. Here we present ClassificaIO, an open-source Python graphical user interface for machine learning classification for the scikit-learn Python library. ClassificaIO provides an interactive way to train, validate, and test data on a range of classification algorithms. The software enables fast comparisons within and across classifiers, and facilitates uploading and exporting of trained models, and both validation and testing data results. ClassificaIO aims to provide not only a research utility, but also an educational tool that can enable biomedical and other researchers with minimal machine learning background to apply machine learning algorithms to their research in an interactive point-and-click way. The ClassificaIO package is available for download and installation through the Python Package Index (PyPI) (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ClassificaIO) and it can be deployed using the \"import\" function in Python once the package is installed. The application is distributed under an MIT license and the source code is publicly available for download (for Mac OS X, Linux and Microsoft Windows) through PyPI and GitHub (http://github.com/gmiaslab/ClassificaIO, and https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1320465).