Binary Whale Optimization Algorithm and Binary Moth Flame Optimization with Clustering Algorithms for Clinical Breast Cancer Diagnoses

Gehad Ismail Sayed (), Ashraf Darwish and Aboul Ella Hassanien
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Gehad Ismail Sayed: Cairo University, Egypt Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE)
Ashraf Darwish: Helwan University Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE)
Aboul Ella Hassanien: Cairo University, Egypt Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE)

Journal of Classification, 2020, vol. 37, issue 1, No 6, 66-96

Abstract: Abstract Models based on machine learning algorithms have been developed to detect the breast cancer disease early. Feature selection is commonly applied to improve the performance of these models through selecting only relevant features. However, selecting relevant features in unsupervised learning is much difficult. This is due to the absence of class labels that guide the search for relevant information. This kind of the problem has rarely been studied in the literature. This paper presents a hybrid intelligence model that uses the cluster analysis algorithms with bio-inspired algorithms as feature selection for analyzing clinical breast cancer data. A binary version of both moth flame optimization and whale optimization algorithm is proposed. Two evaluation criteria are adopted to evaluate the proposed algorithms: clustering-based measurements and statistics-based measurements. The experimental results positively demonstrate that the capability of the proposed bio-inspired feature selection algorithms to produce both meaningful data partitions and significant feature subsets.

Keywords: Intelligent systems; Breast cancer; Feature selection; Whale optimization algorithm; Moth flame optimization; WBCD (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/s00357-018-9297-3

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