Best Features Selection for Biomedical Data Classification Using Seven Spot Ladybird Optimization Algorithm

This article presents a new adaptive algorithm called FS-SLOA (Feature Selection-Seven Spot Ladybird Optimization Algorithm) which is a meta-heuristic feature selection method based on the foraging behavior of a seven spot ladybird. The new efficient technique has been applied to find the best subset features, which achieves the highest accuracy in classification using three classifiers: the Naive Bayes (NB), the Nearest Neighbors (KNN) and the Support Vector Machine (SVM). The authors' proposed approach has been experimented on four well-known benchmark datasets (Wisconsin Breast cancer, Pima Diabetes, Mammographic Mass, and Dermatology datasets) taken from the UCI machine learning repository. Experimental results prove that the classification accuracy of FS-SLOA is the best performing for different datasets.