A Novel Feature Selection Method for Classification of Medical Documents from Pubmed

Abstract

The exponential growth of online repositories in medical science has led to the development of various text mining tool . Theses tools assist the users in analyzing text data stored in the online repositories like Pubmed and medline. The pubmed repositories are growing at the rate of 500000 articles per year. Classification of Medline documents becomes very complex due to high dimensionality of feature space. In this study we discussed how dimensionality is reduced. We study and compared various dimensionality reduction techniques at the preprocessing stage. We introduce a novel feature weighting scheme "GRW " and proved that this schema improves classification accuracy. Our experimental results indicate that existing feature weighting methods has less accuracy rate when compared to GRW schema and tested on medical data set

Discriminant Pearson Correlative Feature Selection based Gentle Adaboost Classification for Medical Document Mining

“…Preprocessing comprises unstructured data and it is not feasible to classify the documents directly using data mining techniques. Preprocessing is essential in text mining and in performing, the documents are converted into a list of features or keywords by performing stop words removal and word stemming process are performed [11].Stop words are the words which occur repeatedly in the documents and they do not provide any meaning within the document. Stop words are "and", "are", "this" and so on.…”