GARS: Genetic Algorithm for the identification of a Robust Subset of features in high-dimensional datasets.

Journal: BMC bioinformatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Feature selection is a crucial step in machine learning analysis. Currently, many feature selection approaches do not ensure satisfying results, in terms of accuracy and computational time, when the amount of data is huge, such as in 'Omics' datasets.

Authors

  • Mattia Chiesa
    Centro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Milan, Italy.
  • Giada Maioli
    Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
  • Gualtiero I Colombo
    Unit of Immunology and Functional Genomics, Centro Cardiologico Monzino IRCCS, Via Carlo Parea, 4, 20138, Milan, Italy.
  • Luca Piacentini
    Unit of Immunology and Functional Genomics, Centro Cardiologico Monzino IRCCS, Via Carlo Parea, 4, 20138, Milan, Italy.