A survey on filter techniques for feature selection in gene expression microarray analysis

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1106-1119

  Lazar, Cosmin ^a   Taminau, Jonatan ^a   Meganck, Stijn ^a   Steenhoff, David ^a   Coletta, Alain ^b   Molter, Colin ^b   De Schaetzen, Virginie ^b   Duque, Robin ^b   Bersini, Hugues ^b   Nowé, Ann ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

biomarker discovery; Feature selection; gene expression data; gene prioritization; gene ranking; information filters; scoring functions; statistical methods

Indexed keywords

BIO-MARKER DISCOVERY; GENE EXPRESSION DATA; GENE RANKING; INFORMATION FILTER; PRIORITIZATION; SCORING FUNCTIONS;

BIOASSAY; BIOCHIPS; BIOINFORMATICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURVEYS;

GENE EXPRESSION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC MARKER; INFORMATION SCIENCE; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC MARKERS; INFORMATION THEORY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ROC CURVE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84861510685     PISSN: 15455963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2012.33     Document Type: Article

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