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Table 5 Performance comparison for independent test samples.

From: Recursive gene selection based on maximum margin criterion: a comparison with SVM-RFE

Dataset

Classifier

# misclassifications (# genes)

  

S2N

MMC-RFE(U)

MMC-RFE(O)

SVM-RFE

Prostate cancer

NNC

1 (1)

0 (45)

0 (22)

1 (1)

 

NMC

1 (1)

0 (2)

0 (22)

1 (1)

Leukemia

NNC

0 (50)

0 (3)

0 (3)

0 (3)

 

NMC

1 (15)

0 (54)

0 (29)

1 (1)

Breast cancer

NNC

4 (19)

3 (91)

3 (85)

4 (2)

 

NMC

4 (1)

4 (35)

4 (36)

1 (2)

  1. Minimum number of misclassifications and the number of genes used for Prostate cancer, Leukemia and Breast cancer. The C parameter of SVM-RFE was set to 0.01 for Prostate cancer, and to 0.001 for Leukemia and Breast cancer.