Improved binary differential evolution with dimensionality reduction mechanism and binary stochastic search for feature selection

Behrouz Ahadzadeh, Moloud Abdar, Fatemeh Safara, Leyla Aghaei, Seyedali Mirjalili, Abbas Khosravi, Salvador García, Fakhri Karray, U. Rajendra Acharya

Abstract: Highlights•Proposing an optimal feature selection algorithm for medical datasets.•Applying binary differential evolution approach and local search algorithm.•Applying dimensionality Removal mechanism.•Validating on heart disease, several cancer and RNA-seq COVID-19 datasets.•Obtaining outstanding performance in generating optimal feature subset.