Improved SVM-RFE feature selection method for multi-SVM classifier

Author(s):  
Jianchen Wang ◽  
Ganlin Shan ◽  
Xiusheng Duan ◽  
Bo Wen
Author(s):  
B. Venkatesh ◽  
J. Anuradha

In Microarray Data, it is complicated to achieve more classification accuracy due to the presence of high dimensions, irrelevant and noisy data. And also It had more gene expression data and fewer samples. To increase the classification accuracy and the processing speed of the model, an optimal number of features need to extract, this can be achieved by applying the feature selection method. In this paper, we propose a hybrid ensemble feature selection method. The proposed method has two phases, filter and wrapper phase in filter phase ensemble technique is used for aggregating the feature ranks of the Relief, minimum redundancy Maximum Relevance (mRMR), and Feature Correlation (FC) filter feature selection methods. This paper uses the Fuzzy Gaussian membership function ordering for aggregating the ranks. In wrapper phase, Improved Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (IBPSO) is used for selecting the optimal features, and the RBF Kernel-based Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier is used as an evaluator. The performance of the proposed model are compared with state of art feature selection methods using five benchmark datasets. For evaluation various performance metrics such as Accuracy, Recall, Precision, and F1-Score are used. Furthermore, the experimental results show that the performance of the proposed method outperforms the other feature selection methods.


Author(s):  
Gang Liu ◽  
Chunlei Yang ◽  
Sen Liu ◽  
Chunbao Xiao ◽  
Bin Song

A feature selection method based on mutual information and support vector machine (SVM) is proposed in order to eliminate redundant feature and improve classification accuracy. First, local correlation between features and overall correlation is calculated by mutual information. The correlation reflects the information inclusion relationship between features, so the features are evaluated and redundant features are eliminated with analyzing the correlation. Subsequently, the concept of mean impact value (MIV) is defined and the influence degree of input variables on output variables for SVM network based on MIV is calculated. The importance weights of the features described with MIV are sorted by descending order. Finally, the SVM classifier is used to implement feature selection according to the classification accuracy of feature combination which takes MIV order of feature as a reference. The simulation experiments are carried out with three standard data sets of UCI, and the results show that this method can not only effectively reduce the feature dimension and high classification accuracy, but also ensure good robustness.


2022 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-86
Author(s):  
Parth C. Upadhyay ◽  
John A. Lory ◽  
Guilherme N. DeSouza ◽  
Timotius A. P. Lagaunne ◽  
Christine M. Spinka

HighlightsA machine learning framework estimated residue cover in RGB images taken at three resolutions from 88 locations.The best results primarily used texture features, the RFE-SVM feature selection method, and the SVM classifier.Accounting for shadows and plants plus modifying and optimizing the texture features may improve performance.An automated system developed using machine learning is a viable strategy to estimate residue cover from RGB images obtained with handheld or UAV platforms.Abstract. Maintaining plant residue on the soil surface contributes to sustainable cultivation of arable land. Applying machine learning methods to RGB images of residue could overcome the subjectivity of manual methods. The objectives of this study were to use supervised machine learning while identifying the best feature selection method, the best classifier, and the most effective image feature types for classifying residue levels in RGB imagery. Imagery was collected from 88 locations in 40 row-crop fields in five Missouri counties between early May and late June in 2018 and 2019 using a tripod-mounted camera (0.014 cm pixel-1 ground sampling distance, GSD) and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV, 0.05 and 0.14 GSD). At each field location, 50 contiguous 0.3 × 0.2 m region of interest (ROI) images were extracted from the imagery, resulting in a dataset of 4,400 ROI images at each GSD. Residue percentages for ground truth were estimated using a bullseye grid method (n = 100 points) based on the 0.014 GSD images. Representative color, texture, and shape features were extracted and evaluated using four feature selection methods and two classifiers. Recursive feature elimination using support vector machine (RFE-SVM) was the best feature selection method, and the SVM classifier performed best for classifying the amount of residue as a three-class problem. The best features for this application were associated with texture, with local binary pattern (LBP) features being the most prevalent for all three GSDs. Shape features were irrelevant. The three residue classes were correctly identified with 88%, 84%, and 81% 10-fold cross-validation scores for the 2018 training data and 81%, 69%, and 65% accuracy for the 2019 testing data in decreasing resolution order. Converting image-wise data (0.014 GSD) to location residue estimates using a Bayesian model showed good agreement with the location-based ground truth (r2 = 0.90). This initial assessment documents the use of RGB images to match other methods of estimating residue, with potential to replace or be used as a quality control for line-transect assessments. Keywords: Feature selection, Soil erosion, Support vector machine, Texture features, Unmanned aerial vehicle.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunyuan Wang ◽  
Yatao Zhang ◽  
Xinge Jiang ◽  
Feifei Liu ◽  
Zhimin Zhang ◽  
...  

Abstract This paper proposed a feature selection method combined with multi-time-scales analysis and heart rate variability (HRV) analysis for middle and early diagnosis of congestive heart failure (CHF). In previous studies regarding the diagnosis of CHF, researchers have tended to increase the variety of HRV features by searching for new ones or to use different machine learning algorithms to optimize the classification of CHF and normal sinus rhythms subject (NSR). In fact, the full utilization of traditional HRV features can also improve classification accuracy. The proposed method constructs a multi-time-scales feature matrix according to traditional HRV features that exhibit good stability in multiple time-scales and differences in different time-scales. The multi-scales features yield better performance than the traditional single-time-scales features when the features are fed into a support vector machine (SVM) classifier, and the results of the SVM classifier exhibit a sensitivity, a specificity, and an accuracy of 99.52%, 100.00%, and 99.83%, respectively. These results indicate that the proposed feature selection method can effectively reduce redundant features and computational load when used for automatic diagnosis of CHF.


2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (10) ◽  
pp. 2812-2815
Author(s):  
Yang-zhu LU ◽  
Xin-you ZHANG ◽  
Yu QI

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Venubabu Rachapudi ◽  
Golagani Lavanya Devi

Background: An efficient feature selection method for Histopathological image classification plays an important role to eliminate irrelevant and redundant features. Therefore, this paper proposes a new levy flight salp swarm optimizer based feature selection method. Methods: The proposed levy flight salp swarm optimizer based feature selection method uses the levy flight steps for each follower salp to deviate them from local optima. The best solution returns the relevant and non-redundant features, which are fed to different classifiers for efficient and robust image classification. Results: The efficiency of the proposed levy flight salp swarm optimizer has been verified on 20 benchmark functions. The anticipated scheme beats the other considered meta-heuristic approaches. Furthermore, the anticipated feature selection method has shown better reduction in SURF features than other considered methods and performed well for histopathological image classification. Conclusion: This paper proposes an efficient levy flight salp Swarm Optimizer by modifying the step size of follower salp. The proposed modification reduces the chances of sticking into local optima. Furthermore, levy flight salp Swarm Optimizer has been utilized in the selection of optimum features from SURF features for the histopathological image classification. The simulation results validate that proposed method provides optimal values and high classification performance in comparison to other methods.


Author(s):  
Fatemeh Alighardashi ◽  
Mohammad Ali Zare Chahooki

Improving the software product quality before releasing by periodic tests is one of the most expensive activities in software projects. Due to limited resources to modules test in software projects, it is important to identify fault-prone modules and use the test sources for fault prediction in these modules. Software fault predictors based on machine learning algorithms, are effective tools for identifying fault-prone modules. Extensive studies are being done in this field to find the connection between features of software modules, and their fault-prone. Some of features in predictive algorithms are ineffective and reduce the accuracy of prediction process. So, feature selection methods to increase performance of prediction models in fault-prone modules are widely used. In this study, we proposed a feature selection method for effective selection of features, by using combination of filter feature selection methods. In the proposed filter method, the combination of several filter feature selection methods presented as fused weighed filter method. Then, the proposed method caused convergence rate of feature selection as well as the accuracy improvement. The obtained results on NASA and PROMISE with ten datasets, indicates the effectiveness of proposed method in improvement of accuracy and convergence of software fault prediction.


2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-34
Author(s):  
Rafael B. Pereira ◽  
Alexandre Plastino ◽  
Bianca Zadrozny ◽  
Luiz H.C. Merschmann

In many important application domains, such as text categorization, biomolecular analysis, scene or video classification and medical diagnosis, instances are naturally associated with more than one class label, giving rise to multi-label classification problems. This has led, in recent years, to a substantial amount of research in multi-label classification. More specifically, feature selection methods have been developed to allow the identification of relevant and informative features for multi-label classification. This work presents a new feature selection method based on the lazy feature selection paradigm and specific for the multi-label context. Experimental results show that the proposed technique is competitive when compared to multi-label feature selection techniques currently used in the literature, and is clearly more scalable, in a scenario where there is an increasing amount of data.


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