17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'04) - Volume 2
Robust Feature Selection by Weighted Fisher Criterion for Multiclass Prediction in Gene Expression Profiling
Cambridge UK
August 23-August 26
ISBN: 0-7695-2128-2
Jianhua Xuan, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Yibin Dong, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Javed Khan, National Cancer Institute, Gaithersburg, MD
Eric Hoffman, Children?s National Medical Center, Washington, DC
Yue Wang, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Alexandria, VA
This paper presents a robust feature selection approach for multiclass prediction with application to microarray studies. First, individually discriminatory genes (IDGs) are identified by using weighted Fisher Criterion (wFC). Second, jointly discriminatory genes (JDGs) are selected by a sequential search method, according to their joint class separability. To combat the small size effect on feature selection, leave-one-out procedures are incorporated into both IDG and JDG selection steps to improve the robustness of the approach. By applying this approach to a microarray study of small round blue cell tumors (SRBCTs) of childhood, we have demonstrated that our robust feature selection method can be used to successfully identify a subset of genes with superior classification performance for multiclass prediction.
Citation:
Jianhua Xuan, Yibin Dong, Javed Khan, Eric Hoffman, Robert Clarke, Yue Wang, "Robust Feature Selection by Weighted Fisher Criterion for Multiclass Prediction in Gene Expression Profiling," icpr, vol. 2, pp.291-294, 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'04) - Volume 2, 2004