Feature selection using a mutual information based measure

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 82-85

  Al Ani, Ahmed ^a   Deriche, Mohamed ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION EVALUATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); PATTERN RECOGNITION;

FEATURE EVALUATION; FEATURE SELECTION; INFORMATION GAIN;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

CLASS LABELS; EVALUATION FUNCTION; FEATURE SUBSET; INFORMATION GAIN; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS;

EID: 33845188685     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2002.1047405     Document Type: Article

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