Review on Feature Selection and Classification using Neuro- Fuzzy Approaches

摘要

This research article attempts to provide a recent survey on neuro-fuzzy approaches for feature selection and classification. Feature selection acts as a catalyst in reducing computation time and dimensionality, enhancing prediction performance or accuracy and curtailing irrelevant or redundant data. The neuro-fuzzy approach is used for feature selection and for providing some insight to the user about the symbolic knowledge embedded within the network. The neuro-fuzzy approach combines the merits of neural network and fuzzy logic to solve many complex machine learning problems. The objective of this article is to provide a generic introduction and a recent survey to neuro-fuzzy approaches for feature selection and classification in a wide area of machine learning problems. Some of the existing neuro-fuzzy models are also applied on standard datasets to demonstrate the applicability of neuro-fuzzy approaches.