title: Gene selection algorithm by combining reliefF and mRMR.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Gene expression data usually contains a large number of genes, but a small number of samples. Feature selection for gene expression data aims at finding a set of genes that best discriminate biological samples of different types. In this paper, we present a two-stage selection algorithm by combining ReliefF and mRMR: In the first stage, ReliefF is applied to find a candidate gene set; In the second stage, mRMR method is applied to directly and explicitly reduce redundancy for selecting a compact yet effective gene subset from the candidate set.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We perform comprehensive experiments to compare the mRMR-ReliefF selection algorithm with ReliefF, mRMR and other feature selection methods using two classifiers as SVM and Naive Bayes, on seven different datasets. And we also provide all source codes and datasets for sharing with others.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The experimental results show that the mRMR-ReliefF gene selection algorithm is very effective.
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, USA. yzhan004@cs.fiu.edu
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D015870:Gene Expression; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software