A wrapper method for feature selection using Support Vector Machines

Information Sciences

Volumn 179, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 2208-2217

  Maldonado, Sebastián ^a   Weber, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Classification; Feature selection; Mathematical programming; Support Vector Machines; Wrapper methods

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; FEATURE SELECTION; FILTER METHODS; KERNEL FUNCTIONS; OTHER ALGORITHMS; RECURSIVE FEATURE ELIMINATIONS; WRAPPER METHODS;

IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; VECTORS;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 64749086339     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2009.02.014     Document Type: Article

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