Technical Report Details
| Date |
12-6-2006 |
| Number |
DISI-TR-06-10 |
| Title |
A wrapper approach to supervised input selection using simulated annealing |
| Authors |
Maurizio Filippone, Francesco Masulli, Stefano Rovetta |
| Bibtex Entry |
@techreport{FilipponeTR06,
author = "Maurizio Filippone and
Francesco Masulli |
| E-mail |
filippone@disi.unige.it |
| Link |
ftp://ftp.disi.unige.it/person/FilipponeM/Publications/tech_rep_ijar06.pdf |
| Abstract |
Genomic data, and more generally biomedical data, are usually characterized by high dimensionality. A feature selection procedure can attain the two objectives of highlighting the relevant variables (genes) and improving classification results. In this paper we propose a wrapper approach to gene selection in classification of gene expression data using Simulated Annealing coupled with supervised classifiers. The proposed approach can perform global combinatorial searches through the space of all possible input subsets, can handle cases with numerical, categorical or mixed inputs, and is able to find (sub-)optimal subsets of inputs giving very low classification errors. The method has been tested on publicly available bioinformatics data sets, and also on mixed type data, using Support Vector Machines or Classification Trees. Moreover we propose some heuristics able to speed-up the convergence. The experimental results highlight the ability of the method to select minimal sets of relevant genes. |
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