Improved equilibrium optimization algorithm using elite opposition-based learning and new local search strategy for feature selection in medical datasets

• Main Authors: Elgamal, Zenab Mohamed, Yasin, Norizan Mohd, Sabri, Aznul Qalid Md, Sihwail, Rami, Tubishat, Mohammad, Jarrah, Hazim
• Format: Article
• Published: MDPI 2021
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/34934/

The rapid growth in biomedical datasets has generated high dimensionality features that negatively impact machine learning classifiers. In machine learning, feature selection (FS) is an essential process for selecting the most significant features and reducing redundant and irrelevant features. In t...