“…In order to verify the effectiveness and superiority of the ReliefF-HBPSO algorithm in the feature selection of head and neck cancer pathological images, this paper compares the nondimensionality reduction and feature dimension reduction methods-PCA [29], ReliefF algorithm [30], and whale optimization algorithm-simulate anneal, respectively, with, WOA-SA [31], binary particle swarm optimization (BPSO) [32,33], hybrid binary evolutionary particle swarm optimization (HBPSO), and ReliefF-BPSO for comparative experiments. Among them, the maximum number of iterations n of the five models of WOA-SA, BPSO, HBPSO, ReliefF-BPSO, and ReliefF-HBPSO is 100.…”