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A Generic multi-dimensional feature extraction method using multiobjective genetic programming.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  19207089     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
In this paper, we present a generic feature extraction method for pattern classification using multiobjective genetic programming. This not only evolves the (near-)optimal set of mappings from a pattern space to a multi-dimensional decision space, but also simultaneously optimizes the dimensionality of that decision space. The presented framework evolves vector-to-vector feature extractors that maximize class separability. We demonstrate the efficacy of our approach by making statistically-founded comparisons with a wide variety of established classifier paradigms over a range of datasets and find that for most of the pairwise comparisons, our evolutionary method delivers statistically smaller misclassification errors. At very worst, our method displays no statistical difference in a few pairwise comparisons with established classifier/dataset combinations; crucially, none of the misclassification results produced by our method is worse than any comparator classifier. Although principally focused on feature extraction, feature selection is also performed as an implicit side effect; we show that both feature extraction and selection are important to the success of our technique. The presented method has the practical consequence of obviating the need to exhaustively evaluate a large family of conventional classifiers when faced with a new pattern recognition problem in order to attain a good classification accuracy.
Authors:
Yang Zhang; Peter I Rockett
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Evolutionary computation     Volume:  17     ISSN:  1063-6560     ISO Abbreviation:  Evol Comput     Publication Date:  2009  
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2009-02-11     Completed Date:  2009-04-27     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9513581     Medline TA:  Evol Comput     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  89-115     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Image and Vision Engineering, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S1 3JD, United Kingdom. hegallis@gmail.com
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Algorithms
Computers, Molecular
Confidence Intervals
Databases as Topic
Humans
Models, Genetic*
Models, Statistical
Models, Theoretical
Mutation
Reproducibility of Results
Research / methods
Research Design

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