SVM-RFE: selection and visualization of the most relevant features through non-linear kernels

Abstract Background Support vector machines (SVM) are a powerful tool to analyze data with a number of predictors approximately equal or larger than the number of observations. However, originally, application of SVM to analyze biomedical data was limited because SVM was not designed to evaluate imp...

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Main Authors: Hector Sanz, Clarissa Valim, Esteban Vegas, Josep M. Oller, Ferran Reverter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-11-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-018-2451-4