Subtree selection in kernels for graph classification

  • Authors:
  • Mehmet Tan;Faruk Polat;Reda Alhajj

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Engineering, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey;Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey;Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Classification of structured data is essential for a wide range of problems in bioinformatics and cheminformatics. One such problem is in silico prediction of small molecule properties such as toxicity, mutagenicity and activity. In this paper, we propose a new feature selection method for graph kernels that uses the subtrees of graphs as their feature sets. A masking procedure which boils down to feature selection is proposed for this purpose. Experiments conducted on several data sets as well as a comparison of our method with some frequent subgraph based approaches are presented.