A Neuro Fuzzy Algorithm for Feature Subset Selection(Special Section on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications)

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Feature subset selection basically depends on the design of a criterion function to measure the effectiveness of a particular feature or a feature subset and the selection of a search strategy to find out the best feature subset. Lots of techniques have been developed so far which are mainly categorized into classifier independent filter approaches and classifier dependant wrapper approaches. Wrapper approaches produce good results but are computationally unattractive specially when nonlinear neural classifiers with complex learning algorithms are used. The present work proposes a hybrid two step approach for finding out the best feature subset from a large feature set in which a fuzzy set theoretic measure for assessing the goodness of a feature is used in conjunction with a multilayer perceptron (MLP) or fractal neural network (FNN) classifier to take advantage of both the approaches. Though the process dose not guarantee absolute optimality, the selected feature subset produces near optimal results for practical purposes. The process is less time consuming and computationally light compared to any neural network classifier based sequential feature subset selection technique. The proposed algorithm has been simulated with two different data sets to justify its effectiveness.
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2001-09-01