A Genetic Programming Approach Applied to Feature Selection from Medical Data

摘要

Genetic programming represents a flexible and powerful evolutionary technique in machine learning. The use of genetic programming for rule induction has generated interesting results in classification problems. This paper proposes an evolutionary approach for logical rule induction, which is applied to clinical data. Since logical rules disclose knowledge from the analyzed data, we use such a knowledge to filter features from the target dataset. The results reached by the used dataset have been very promising when used in classification tasks and compared with other methods.