In this work, we study the behavior of a feature selection algorithm (backwards selection) using random forests, by fusing multi-modal data from different subjects. Two separate datasets related to cutaneous melanoma, obtained from image (dermoscopy) and non-image (microarray) sources are used. Imputations are applied in order to acquire a unified dataset, prior the effect of machine learning algorithms. The results suggest that application of the normal random imputation method acts as an additional variation factor, helping towards stability of potential recommended biomarkers. In addition, microarray-derived features were favorably selected as best predictors compared to image-derived features. © 2012 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.
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Moutselos, K., Chatziioannou, A., & Maglogiannis, I. (2012). Feature selection study on separate multi-modal datasets: Application on cutaneous melanoma. In IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (Vol. 382 AICT, pp. 36–45). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33412-2_4
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