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Feature selection (FS) is commonly thought of as a pre-processing strategy for determining the best subset of characteristics from a given collection of features. Here, a novel discrete artificial gorilla troop optimization (DAGTO) technique is introduced for the first time to handle FS tasks in the healthcare sector. Depending on the number and type of objective functions, four variants of the proposed method are implemented in this article, namely: (1) single-objective (SO-DAGTO), (2) bi-objective (wrapper) (MO-DAGTO1), (3) bi-objective (filter wrapper hybrid) (MO-DAGTO2), and (4) tri-objective (filter wrapper hybrid) (MO-DAGTO3) for identifying relevant features in diagnosing a particular disease. We provide an outstanding gorilla initialization strategy based on the label mutual information (MI) with the aim of increasing population variety and accelerate convergence. To verify the performance of the presented methods, ten medical datasets are taken into consideration, which are of variable dimensions. A comparison is also implemented between the best of the four suggested approaches (MO-DAGTO2) and four established multi-objective FS strategies, and it is statistically proven to be the superior one. Finally, a case study with COVID-19 samples is performed to extract the critical factors related to it and to demonstrate how this method is fruitful in real-world applications.

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Medical datasets frequently include vast feature sets with numerous features that are related to one another. As a result, the curse of dimensionality affects learning from a medical dataset to discover significant characteristics, making it necessary to minimize the feature set. Feature selection (FS) is a major step in classification and also in reducing the dimension. This study attempts a novel Binary Multi-objective Chimp Optimization Algorithm (BMOChOA) with dual archive and k-nearest neighbors (KNN) classifier for mining relevant aspects from medical data. In this research, 12 versions of BMOChOA are implemented based on the group information and types of chaotic functions used. The best Pareto front obtained from suggested BMOChOA variations is compared with three benchmark multi-objective FS methods by taking 14 popular medical datasets of variable dimensions. By analyzing the experimental outputs using four multi-objective performance evaluators, it is found that the proposed FS method is superior in finding the best trade-off between the two objective functions: the number of features and classification performance.

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