Feature Selection for Microarray Data via Community Detection Fusing Multiple Gene Relation Networks Information

Abstract

In recent decades, the rapid development of gene sequencing and computer technology has increased the growth of high-dimensional microarray data. Some machine learning methods have been successfully applied to it to help classify cancer. In most cases, high dimensionality and the small sample size of microarray data restricted the performance of cancer classification. This problem usually issolved bysome feature selection methods. However, most of them neglect the exploitation of relations among genes. This paper proposes a novel feature selection method by fusing multiple gene relation network information based on community detection (MGRCD). The proposed method divides all genes into different communities. Then, the genes most associated with cancer classification are selected from each community. The proposed method satisfies both maximum relevances gene with cancer and minimum redundancy among genes for the selected optimal feature subset. The experiment results show that the proposed gene selection method can effectively improve classification performance.