A counterintuitive approach yields big benefits for high-dimensional, small-sized dataset problems

Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - 08:30 in Psychology & Sociology

Extracting meaningful information out of clinical datasets can mean the difference between a successful diagnosis and a protracted illness. However datasets can vary widely both in terms of the number of 'features' measured and the number of independent observations taken. Now, A*STAR researchers have developed an approach for targeted feature selection from datasets with small sample sizes, which tackles the so-called class imbalance problem.

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