An Innovative Excited-ACS-IDGWO Algorithm for Optimal Biomedical Data Feature Selection.

Finding an optimal set of discriminative features is still a crucial but challenging task in biomedical science. The complexity of the task is intensified when any of the two scenarios arise: a highly dimensioned dataset and a small sample-sized dataset. The first scenario poses a big challenge to existing machine learning approaches since the search space for identifying the most relevant feature subset is so diverse to be explored quickly while utilizing minimal computational resources. On the other hand, the second aspect poses a challenge of too few samples to learn from. Though many hybrid metaheuristic approaches (i.e., combining multiple search algorithms) have been proposed in the literature to address these challenges with very attractive performance compared to their counterpart standard standalone metaheuristics, more superior hybrid approaches can be achieved if the individual metaheuristics within the proposed hybrid algorithms are improved prior to the hybridization. Motivated by this, we propose a new hybrid Excited- (E-) Adaptive Cuckoo Search- (ACS-) Intensification Dedicated Grey Wolf Optimization (IDGWO), i.e., EACSIDGWO. EACSIDGWO is an algorithm where the step size of ACS and the nonlinear control strategy of parameter