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Selecting high discriminative genes from gene expression data has become an important research. Not only can this improve the performance of cancer classification, but it can also cut down the cost of medical diagnoses when a large number of noisy, redundant genes are filtered. In this paper, a hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Genetic Algorithm (GA) method is used for gene selection, and Support Vector Machine (SVM) is adopted as the classifier. The proposed approach is tested on three benchmark gene expression datasets: Leukemia, Colon and breast cancer data. Experimental results show that the proposed method can reduce the dimensionality of the dataset, and confirm the most informative gene subset and improve classification accuracy.
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Li, S., Wu, X. & Tan, M. Gene selection using hybrid particle swarm optimization and genetic algorithm. Soft Comput 12, 1039–1048 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-007-0272-x
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