Research Article

Ant Colony Optimization-Based Streaming Feature Selection: An Application to the Medical Image Diagnosis

Table 2

Datasets and the number of features selected by the proposed ACO-SU approach compared with the alpha-investing and OSFS.

S. No.DatasetNumber of instancesClassesNumber of featuresACO-SUOSFSAlpha-investing

1Iris15034124
2Liver disorder34526112
3Diabetes76828248
4House-votes4352163314
5Labor57216436
6Horse colic3002286318
7Lung-cancer32356636
8SPECT267228221
9Clean-musk47621693834
10Test-colon623183523
11Leukemia723269821
12Nci9603106531
13Lymphoma963141531
14Test-lung737326541