An Unsupervised Feature Selection Algorithm with Feature Ranking for Maximizing Performance of the Classifiers

Prediction plays a vital role in decision making. Correct prediction leads to right decision making to save the life, energy,efforts, money and time. The right decision prevents physical and material losses and it is practiced in all the fields including medical,finance, environmental studies, engineering and emerging technologies. Prediction is carried out by a model called classifier. The predictive accuracy of the classifier highly depends on the training datasets utilized for training the classifier. The irrelevant and redundant features of the training dataset reduce the accuracy of the classifier. Hence, the irrelevant and redundant features must be removed from the training dataset through the process known as feature selection. This paper proposes a feature selection algorithm namely unsupervised learning with ranking based feature selection(FSULR). It removes redundant features by clustering and eliminates irrelevant features by statistical measures to select the most significant features from the training dataset. The performance of this proposed algorithm is compared with the other seven feature selection algorithms by well known classifiers namely naive Bayes(NB),instance based(IB1) and tree based J48. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm yields better prediction accuracy for classifiers.

Apple leaf disease identification using genetic algorithm and correlation based feature selection method

Apple leaf disease is one of the main factors to constrain the apple production and quality.It takes a long time to detect the diseases by using the traditional diagnostic approach,thus farmers often miss the best time to prevent and treat the diseases.Apple leaf disease recognition based on leaf image is an essential research topic in the field of computer vision,where the key task is to find an effective way to represent the diseased leaf images.In this research,based on image processing techniques and pattern recognition methods,an apple leaf disease recognition method was proposed.A color transformation structure for the input RGB(Red,Green and Blue)image was designed firstly and then RGB model was converted to HSI(Hue,Saturation and Intensity),YUV and gray models.The background was removed based on a specific threshold value,and then the disease spot image was segmented with region growing algorithm(RGA).Thirty-eight classifying features of color,texture and shape were extracted from each spot image.To reduce the dimensionality of the feature space and improve the accuracy of the apple leaf disease identification,the most valuable features were selected by combining genetic algorithm(GA)and correlation based feature selection(CFS).Finally,the diseases were recognized by SVM classifier.In the proposed method,the selected feature subset was globally optimum.The experimental results of more than 90%correct identification rate on the apple diseased leaf image database which contains 90 disease images for there kinds of apple leaf diseases,powdery mildew,mosaic and rust,demonstrate that the proposed method is feasible and effective.

BFS-SVM Classifier for QoS and Resource Allocation in Cloud Environment

In cloud computing Resource allocation is a very complex task.Handling the customer demand makes the challenges of on-demand resource allocation.Many challenges are faced by conventional methods for resource allocation in order tomeet the Quality of Service(QoS)requirements of users.For solving the about said problems a new method was implemented with the utility of machine learning framework of resource allocation by utilizing the cloud computing technique was taken in to an account in this research work.The accuracy in the machine learning algorithm can be improved by introducing Bat Algorithm with feature selection(BFS)in the proposed work,this further reduces the inappropriate features from the data.The similarities that were hidden can be demoralized by the Support Vector Machine(SVM)classifier which is also determine the subspace vector and then a new feature vector can be predicted by using SVM.For an unexpected circumstance SVM model can make a resource allocation decision.The efficiency of proposed SVM classifier of resource allocation can be highlighted by using a singlecell multiuser massive Multiple-Input Multiple Output(MIMO)system,with beam allocation problem as an example.The proposed resource allocation based on SVM performs efficiently than the existing conventional methods;this has been proven by analysing its results.

森林优化特征选择算法的增强与扩展

特征选择作为一种重要的数据预处理方法,不但能解决维数灾难问题,还能提高算法的泛化能力.各种各样的方法已被应用于解决特征选择问题,其中,基于演化计算的特征选择算法近年来获得了更多的关注并取得了一些成功.近期研究结果表明,森林优化特征选择算法具有更好的分类性能及维度缩减能力.然而,初始化阶段的随机性、全局播种阶段的人为参数设定,影响了该算法的准确率和维度缩减能力;同时,算法本身存在着高维数据处理能力不足的本质缺陷.从信息增益率的角度给出了一种初始化策略,在全局播种阶段,借用模拟退火控温函数的思想自动生成参数,并结合维度缩减率给出了适应度函数;同时,针对形成的优质森林采取贪心算法,形成一种特征选择算法EFSFOA(enhanced feature selection using forest optimization algorithm).此外,在面对高维数据的处理时,采用集成特征选择的方案形成了一个适用于EFSFOA的集成特征选择框架,使其能够有效处理高维数据特征选择问题.通过设计对比实验,验证了EFSFOA与FSFOA相比在分类准确率和维度缩减率上均有明显的提高,高维数据处理能力更是提高到了100 000维.将EFSFOA与近年来提出的比较高效的基于演化计算的特征选择方法进行对比,EFSFOA仍具有很强的竞争力.

A Feature Selection Method for Prediction Essential Protein

Essential proteins are vital to the survival of a cell. There are various features related to the essentiality of proteins, such as biological and topological features. Many computational methods have been developed to identify essential proteins by using these features. However, it is still a big challenge to design an effective method that is able to select suitable features and integrate them to predict essential proteins. In this work, we first collect 26 features, and use SVM-RFE to select some of them to create a feature space for predicting essential proteins, and then remove the features that share the biological meaning with other features in the feature space according to their Pearson Correlation Coefficients（PCC）. The experiments are carried out on S. cerevisiae data. Six features are determined as the best subset of features. To assess the prediction performance of our method, we further compare it with some machine learning methods, such as SVM, Naive Bayes, Bayes Network, and NBTree when inputting the different number of features. The results show that those methods using the 6 features outperform that using other features, which confirms the effectiveness of our feature selection method for essential protein prediction.