A probabilistic multi-objective artificial bee colony algorithm for gene selection

摘要: Microarray technology is widely used to report gene expression data. The inclusion of many features and few samples is one of the characteristic features of this platform. In order to define significant genes for a particular disease, the problem of high-dimensionality microarray data should be overcome. The Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) Algorithm is a successful meta-heuristic algorithm that solves optimization problems effectively. In this paper, we propose a hybrid gene selection method for discriminatively selecting genes. We propose a new probabilistic binary Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm, namely PrBABC, that is hybridized with three different filter methods. The proposed method is applied to nine microarray datasets in order to detect distinctive genes for classifying cancer data. Results are compared with other well-known meta-heuristic algorithms: Binary Differential Evolution Algorithm (BinDE), Binary Particle …