Attribute reduction methods in fuzzy rough set theory: An overview, comparative experiments, and new directions

Z Yuan, H Chen, P Xie, P Zhang, J Liu, T Li - Applied Soft Computing, 2021 - Elsevier
Fuzzy rough set theory is a powerful tool to deal with uncertainty information, which has
been successfully applied to the fields of attribute reduction, rule extraction, classification …

Semantics-preserving dimensionality reduction: rough and fuzzy-rough-based approaches

R Jensen, Q Shen - IEEE Transactions on knowledge and data …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Semantics-preserving dimensionality reduction refers to the problem of selecting those input
features that are most predictive of a given outcome; a problem encountered in many areas …

Positive approximation: an accelerator for attribute reduction in rough set theory

Y Qian, J Liang, W Pedrycz, C Dang - Artificial intelligence, 2010 - Elsevier
Feature selection is a challenging problem in areas such as pattern recognition, machine
learning and data mining. Considering a consistency measure introduced in rough set …

Neighborhood rough set based heterogeneous feature subset selection

Q Hu, D Yu, J Liu, C Wu - Information sciences, 2008 - Elsevier
Feature subset selection is viewed as an important preprocessing step for pattern
recognition, machine learning and data mining. Most of researches are focused on dealing …

Maximal-discernibility-pair-based approach to attribute reduction in fuzzy rough sets

J Dai, H Hu, WZ Wu, Y Qian… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Attribute reduction is one of the biggest challenges encountered in computational
intelligence, data mining, pattern recognition, and machine learning. Effective in feature …

Attribute selection based on information gain ratio in fuzzy rough set theory with application to tumor classification

J Dai, Q Xu - Applied Soft Computing, 2013 - Elsevier
Tumor classification based on gene expression levels is important for tumor diagnosis.
Since tumor data in gene expression contain thousands of attributes, attribute selection for …

Information-preserving hybrid data reduction based on fuzzy-rough techniques

Q Hu, D Yu, Z Xie - Pattern recognition letters, 2006 - Elsevier
Data reduction plays an important role in machine learning and pattern recognition with a
high-dimensional data. In real-world applications data usually exists with hybrid formats, and …

Fuzzy-rough sets assisted attribute selection

R Jensen, Q Shen - IEEE Transactions on fuzzy systems, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Attribute selection (AS) refers to the problem of selecting those input attributes or features
that are most predictive of a given outcome; a problem encountered in many areas such as …

Dimensionality reduction based on rough set theory: A review

K Thangavel, A Pethalakshmi - Applied soft computing, 2009 - Elsevier
A rough set theory is a new mathematical tool to deal with uncertainty and vagueness of
decision system and it has been applied successfully in all the fields. It is used to identify the …

Computational intelligence and feature selection: rough and fuzzy approaches

R Jensen, Q Shen - 2008 - books.google.com
The rough and fuzzy set approaches presented here open up many new frontiers for
continued research and development Computational Intelligence and Feature Selection …