error-correcting output codes

As various modalities of genomic data are accumulating, methods to integrate across multi-omics datasets are becoming important. Error-correcting output codes (ECOC) is an ensemble learning strategy for solving a multiclass problem thru a decoding process that aggregates the predictions of multiple classifiers. Thus, it lends itself naturally to aggregating predictions across multiple views as well. We applied the ECOC to multi-view learning to see if this strategy can enhance classifier performance as compared to traditional techniques.