A review of the modification strategies of the nature inspired algorithms for feature selection problem

R Abu Khurma, I Aljarah, A Sharieh, M Abd Elaziz… - Mathematics, 2022 - mdpi.com
This survey is an effort to provide a research repository and a useful reference for
researchers to guide them when planning to develop new Nature-inspired Algorithms …

A survey on swarm intelligence approaches to feature selection in data mining

BH Nguyen, B Xue, M Zhang - Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2020 - Elsevier
One of the major problems in Big Data is a large number of features or dimensions, which
causes the issue of “the curse of dimensionality” when applying machine learning …

A survey on evolutionary computation approaches to feature selection

B Xue, M Zhang, WN Browne… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Feature selection is an important task in data mining and machine learning to reduce the
dimensionality of the data and increase the performance of an algorithm, such as a …

A new representation in PSO for discretization-based feature selection

B Tran, B Xue, M Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In machine learning, discretization and feature selection (FS) are important techniques for
preprocessing data to improve the performance of an algorithm on high-dimensional data …

Survey on data science with population-based algorithms

S Cheng, B Liu, TO Ting, Q Qin, Y Shi, K Huang - Big Data Analytics, 2016 - Springer
This paper discusses the relationship between data science and population-based
algorithms, which include swarm intelligence and evolutionary algorithms. We reviewed two …

Gene selection from microarray gene expression data for classification of cancer subgroups employing PSO and adaptive K-nearest neighborhood technique

S Kar, KD Sharma, M Maitra - Expert Systems with Applications, 2015 - Elsevier
These days, microarray gene expression data are playing an essential role in cancer
classifications. However, due to the availability of small number of effective samples …

A new binary particle swarm optimization approach: Momentum and dynamic balance between exploration and exploitation

BH Nguyen, B Xue, P Andreae… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a heuristic optimization algorithm generally applied to
continuous domains. Binary PSO is a form of PSO applied to binary domains but uses the …

[HTML][HTML] A hybrid gene selection algorithm for microarray cancer classification using genetic algorithm and learning automata

H Motieghader, A Najafi, B Sadeghi… - Informatics in Medicine …, 2017 - Elsevier
Cancer classification is an important problem in cancer diagnosis and treatment. One of the
most effective methods in cancer classification is gene selection. However, selecting a …

A novel gene selection algorithm for cancer classification using microarray datasets

R Alanni, J Hou, H Azzawi, Y Xiang - BMC medical genomics, 2019 - Springer
Background Microarray datasets are an important medical diagnostic tool as they represent
the states of a cell at the molecular level. Available microarray datasets for classifying cancer …

Efficient high-dimension feature selection based on enhanced equilibrium optimizer

S Ouadfel, M Abd Elaziz - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
Feature selection (FS) is an important task in any classification process and aims to choose
the smallest features number that yields higher classification accuracy. FS can be formulated …