Kernel-based learning and feature selection analysis for cancer diagnosis |
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Affiliation: | 1. College of Computer and Information Engineering, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang 453007, China;2. Postdoctoral Mobile Station of Biology, College of Life Science, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang 453007, China;3. Institute of Big Data Science and Industry, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China |
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Abstract: | DNA microarray is a very active area of research in the molecular diagnosis of cancer. Microarray data are composed of many thousands of features and from tens to hundreds of instances, which make the analysis and diagnosis of cancer very complex. In this case, gene/feature selection becomes an elemental and essential task in data classification. In this paper, we propose a complete cancer diagnostic process through kernel-based learning and feature selection. First, support vector machines recursive feature elimination (SVM-RFE) is used to prefilter the genes. Second, the SVM-RFE is enhanced by using binary dragonfly (BDF), which is a recently developed metaheuristic that has never been benchmarked in the context of feature selection. The objective function is the average of classification accuracy rate generated by three kernel-based learning methods. We conducted a series of experiments on six microarray datasets often used in the literature. Experiment results demonstrate that this approach is efficient and provides a higher classification accuracy rate using a reduced number of genes. |
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Keywords: | Classification Feature selection Kernel-based learning Support vector machines recursive feature elimination Binary dragon fly |
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