Improving accuracy of microarray classification by a simple multi-task feature selection filter

International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 189-208

  Lan, Liang ^a   Vucetic, Slobodan ^a  

^a Temple University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Feature filter; Microarray classification; Multi task learning; Transfer learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953212965     PISSN: 17485673     EISSN: 17485681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJDMB.2011.039177     Document Type: Article

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