title: An efficient ensemble learning method for gene microarray classification.
abstract: The gene microarray analysis and classification have demonstrated an effective way for the effective diagnosis of diseases and cancers. However, it has been also revealed that the basic classification techniques have intrinsic drawbacks in achieving accurate gene classification and cancer diagnosis. On the other hand, classifier ensembles have received increasing attention in various applications. Here, we address the gene classification issue using RotBoost ensemble methodology. This method is a combination of Rotation Forest and AdaBoost techniques which in turn preserve both desirable features of an ensemble architecture, that is, accuracy and diversity. To select a concise subset of informative genes, 5 different feature selection algorithms are considered. To assess the efficiency of the RotBoost, other nonensemble/ensemble techniques including Decision Trees, Support Vector Machines, Rotation Forest, AdaBoost, and Bagging are also deployed. Experimental results have revealed that the combination of the fast correlation-based feature selection method with ICA-based RotBoost ensemble is highly effective for gene classification. In fact, the proposed method can create ensemble classifiers which outperform not only the classifiers produced by the conventional machine learning but also the classifiers generated by two widely used conventional ensemble learning methods, that is, Bagging and AdaBoost.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Dezful Branch, Dezful 313, Iran.
authors.forename: Alireza
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Osareh
authors.forename: Bita
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Shadgar
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D006801:Humans; D046228:Microarray Analysis; D011506:Proteins / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D060388:Support Vector Machine
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins
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