Opportunities and obstacles for deep learning in biology and medicine

T Ching, DS Himmelstein… - Journal of the …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Deep learning describes a class of machine learning algorithms that are capable of
combining raw inputs into layers of intermediate features. These algorithms have recently …

Ensembles for feature selection: A review and future trends

V Bolón-Canedo, A Alonso-Betanzos - Information fusion, 2019 - Elsevier
Ensemble learning is a prolific field in Machine Learning since it is based on the assumption
that combining the output of multiple models is better than using a single model, and it …

On the stability of feature selection algorithms

S Nogueira, K Sechidis, G Brown - Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2018 - jmlr.org
Feature Selection is central to modern data science, from exploratory data analysis to
predictive model-building. The" stability" of a feature selection algorithm refers to the …

Fizzy: feature subset selection for metagenomics

G Ditzler, JC Morrison, Y Lan, GL Rosen - BMC bioinformatics, 2015 - Springer
Background Some of the current software tools for comparative metagenomics provide
ecologists with the ability to investigate and explore bacterial communities using α–& β …

Extensions to online feature selection using bagging and boosting

G Ditzler, J LaBarck, J Ritchie… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Feature subset selection can be used to sieve through large volumes of data and discover
the most informative subset of variables for a particular learning problem. Yet, due to …

A bootstrap framework for aggregating within and between feature selection methods

R Salman, A Alzaatreh, H Sulieman, S Faisal - Entropy, 2021 - mdpi.com
In the past decade, big data has become increasingly prevalent in a large number of
applications. As a result, datasets suffering from noise and redundancy issues have …

Measuring the stability of feature selection with applications to ensemble methods

S Nogueira, G Brown - … Systems: 12th International Workshop, MCS 2015 …, 2015 - Springer
Ensemble methods are often used to decide on a good selection of features for later
processing by a classifier. Examples of this are in the determination of Random Forest …

Filter variable selection algorithm using risk ratios for dimensionality reduction of healthcare data for classification

EK Bodur, DD Atsa'am - Processes, 2019 - mdpi.com
This research developed and tested a filter algorithm that serves to reduce the feature space
in healthcare datasets. The algorithm binarizes the dataset, and then separately evaluates …

A sequential learning approach for scaling up filter-based feature subset selection

G Ditzler, R Polikar, G Rosen - IEEE Transactions on Neural …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Increasingly, many machine learning applications are now associated with very large data
sets whose sizes were almost unimaginable just a short time ago. As a result, many of the …

Data poisoning against information-theoretic feature selection

H Liu, G Ditzler - Information Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
A typical assumption made in machine learning is that a learning model does not consider
an adversary's existence that can subvert a classifier's objective. As a result, machine …