Gene Selection via a New Hybrid Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Cancer Classification in High-Dimensional Data

Table 5

Description of the datasets (DNA microarray) used.

Dataset name	Diagnostic task	Number of samples	Number of genes	Number of classes
11_Tumors	11 various human tumor types	174	12533	11
9_Tumors	9 various human tumor types	60	5726	9
Brain_Tumor1	5 human brain tumor types	90	5920	5
Brain_Tumor2	4 malignant glioma types	50	10367	4
Leukemia1	Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), acute lympboblastic leukemia (ALL) B-cell, and ALL T-cell	72	5327	3
Leukemia 2	AML, ALL, and mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL)	72	11225	3
Lung_Cancer	4 lung cancer types and normal tissues	203	12600	5
SRBCT	Small, round blue cell tumors (SRBCT) of childhood	83	2308	4
Prostate_Tumor	Prostate tumor and normal tissues	102	10509	2
DLBCL	Diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (DLBCL) and follicular lymphomas	77	5469	2