Feature selection based on meta-heuristics for biomedicine

Optimization Methods and Software

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 703-719

  Wang, Ling ^a,b   Ni, Haoqi ^a   Yang, Ruixin ^a   Pappu, Vijay ^b   Fenn, Michael B ^b   Pardalos, Panos M ^b  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

biomedicine; feature selection; meta heuristic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894101318     PISSN: 10556788     EISSN: 10294937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10556788.2013.834900     Document Type: Article

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