Machine learning has become an integral part of our life in today's world. Machine learning when applied to real-world applications suffers from the problem of high dimensional data. Data can have unnecessary and redundant features. These unnecessary features affect the performance of classification systems used in prediction. Selection of important features is the first step in developing any decision support system. In this paper, the authors have proposed a hybrid feature selection method GARFE by integrating GA (genetic algorithm) and RFE (recursive feature elimination) algorithms. Efficiency of proposed method is analyzed using support vector machine classifier on the scale of accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, precision, F-measure, and execution time parameters. Proposed GARFE method is also compared to eight other feature selection methods. Results demonstrate that the proposed GARFE method has increased the performance of classification systems by removing irrelevant and redundant features.
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