Comparative Study of Classification Models with Genetic Search Based Feature Selection Technique

Feature selection plays a very important role to retrieve the relevant features from datasets and computationally improves the performance of a model. The objective of this study is to evaluate the most important features of a chronic kidney disease (CKD) dataset and diagnose the CKD problem. In this research work, the authors have used a genetic search with the Wrapper Subset Evaluator method for feature selection to increase the overall performance of the classification model. They have also used Bayes Network, Classification and Regression Tree (CART), Radial Basis Function Network (RBFN) and J48 classifier for classification of CKD and non-CKD data. The proposed genetic search based feature selection technique (GSBFST) selects the best features from CKD dataset and compares the performance of classifiers with proposed and existing genetic search feature selection techniques (FSTs). All classification models give the better result with proposed GSBFST as compared to without FST and existing genetic search FSTs.