Ceyhun Can Ülker
ABSTRACT
Recent research has shown that it is possible to classify cognitive states of human subjects based on fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) data. One of the obstacles in classifying fMRI data is the problem of high dimensionality. A single fMRI snapshot consists of thousands of voxels and since a single experiment contains many fMRI snapshots, the dimensionality of an fMRI data instance easily surpasses the order of tens of thousands. So, feature selection methods become a must from both classification and running time performance points of view. To this end several feature selection methods are studied, either general or specific to fMRI data. So far, one of the best such methods, which is specific to fMRI data, is called the "active" method [9]. In this work we combine genetic algorithms with the active method in order to improve the performance of feature selection. Specifically, we first reduce the feature dimension using the active method and search for informative features in that reduced space using genetic algorithms. We achieve better or similar levels of classification performance using a much smaller number of voxels than the active method offers.
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- Improving the performance of active voxel selection in the analysis of fMRI data using genetic algorithms
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