Feature Extraction, Construction and Selection: A Data Mining Perspective

There is broad interest in feature extraction, construction, and selection among practitioners from statistics, pattern recognition, and data mining to machine learning. Data preprocessing is an essential step in the knowledge discovery process for real—world applications. This book compiles contributions from many leading and active researchers in this growing field and paints a picture of the state—of—art techniques that can boost the capabilities of many existing data mining tools. The o...