A Plant Root System Algorithm Based on Swarm Intelligence for One-dimensional Biomedical Signal Feature Engineering

The classification accuracy of one-dimensional (1D) biomedical signals is limited due to the lack of independence of the extracted features. To address this shortcoming, the study applies a swarm intelligence algorithm based on plant root systems (PRSs) to feature engineering. Some basic features of 1D biomedical signals are integrated into a digitized soil, and a root matrix is generated from this digitized soil and the PRS algorithm. The PRS features are extracted from the root matrix and used to classify the basic features. Following classification with the same biomedical signals and classifier, the accuracy of the added PRS set is generally higher than that of the base set. The result shows that the proposed algorithm can expand the application of 1D biomedical signals to include more biomedical signals in classification tasks for clinical diagnosis.