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A human body physiological feature selection algorithm based on filtering and improved clustering

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  • Bo Chen
  • Jie Yu
  • Xiu-e Gao
  • Qing-Guo Zheng

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Research: The body composition model is closely related to the physiological characteristics of the human body. At the same time there can be a large number of physiological characteristics, many of which may be redundant or irrelevant. In existing human physiological feature selection algorithms, it is difficult to overcome the impact that redundancy and irrelevancy may have on human body composition modeling. This suggests a role for selection algorithms, where human physiological characteristics are identified using a combination of filtering and improved clustering. To do this, a feature filtering method based on Hilbert-Schmidt dependency criteria is first of all used to eliminate irrelevant features. After this, it is possible to use improved Chameleon clustering to increase the combination of sub-clusters amongst the characteristics, thereby removing any redundant features to obtain a candidate feature set for human body composition modeling. Method Result: The proposed algorithm is able to remove irrelevant and redundant features and the resulting correlation between the model and the body composition (BFM which is a whole body fat evaluation can better assess the body's overall fat and muscle composition.) is 0.978, thereby providing an improved model for prediction with a relative error of less than 0.12.

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  • Bo Chen & Jie Yu & Xiu-e Gao & Qing-Guo Zheng, 2018. "A human body physiological feature selection algorithm based on filtering and improved clustering," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(10), pages 1-15, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0204816
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0204816
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    1. Xiue Gao & Wenxue Xie & Shifeng Chen & Junjie Yang & Bo Chen, 2020. "The Prediction of Human Abdominal Adiposity Based on the Combination of a Particle Swarm Algorithm and Support Vector Machine," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(3), pages 1-10, February.
    2. Xiue Gao & Wenxue Xie & Zumin Wang & Tianshu Zhang & Bo Chen & Ping Wang, 2020. "Predicting human body composition using a modified adaptive genetic algorithm with a novel selection operator," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(7), pages 1-23, July.

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