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This paper proposes an evaluation method for assessing the corrosion level of SPCC steel samples using eddy current testing (ECT), along with two different machine learning approaches. The objective is to classify the corrosion of the samples into two states: a less corroded state (state-1) and a highly corroded state (state-2). Generative and discriminative models were implemented for classification. The generative classifier was based on the Gaussian mixture model (GMM), while the discriminative model was based on the logistic regression model. The features used in the classification models are the peaks of the perturbated magnetic fields at two different frequencies. The performance of the classifiers was evaluated using metrics such as absolute error, accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score. The results indicate that the GMM model is more conducive to categorizing states with higher levels of corrosion, while the logistic regression model is helpful in estimating states with lower levels of corrosion. 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