Feature Selection in Survival Least Squares Support Vector Machines with Maximal Variation Constraints

Authors:
V. Belle;K. Pelckmans;J. A. Suykens;S. Huffel
Affiliations:
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ESAT-SCD, Leuven, Belgium B-3001;Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ESAT-SCD, Leuven, Belgium B-3001;Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ESAT-SCD, Leuven, Belgium B-3001;Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ESAT-SCD, Leuven, Belgium B-3001
Venue:
IWANN '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks: Part I: Bio-Inspired Systems: Computational and Ambient Intelligence
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This work proposes the use of maximal variation analysis for feature selection within least squares support vector machines for survival analysis. Instead of selecting a subset of variables with forward or backward feature selection procedures, we modify the loss function in such a way that the maximal variation for each covariate is minimized, resulting in models which have sparse dependence on the features. Experiments on artificial data illustrate the ability of the maximal variation method to recover relevant variables from the given ones. A real life study concentrates on a breast cancer dataset containing clinical variables. The results indicate a better performance for the proposed method compared to Cox regression with an L 1 regularization scheme.