Research Article

A Feature Selection Algorithm Integrating Maximum Classification Information and Minimum Interaction Feature Dependency Information

Algorithm 1

NDCRFS algorithm.
(1)Input: Original feature set ; Class label set ; Threshold
(2)Output: Optimal feature subset
(3)initialization: ;
(4)fordo
(5) Calculate the mutual information value of each feature and label ;
(6)ifthen
(7)  remove from and continue;
(8)end
(9)end
(10);
(11);
(12);
(13)whiledo
(14) calculate the value of ;
(15)ifthen
(16)  calculate the value of ;
(17)  calculate the value of ;
(18)  Update using equation (10);
(19)  find the candidate feature with the largest ;
(20)end
(21);
(22)
(23);
(24)end