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, the class labels of the training data are used to define
the scores of individual features. Such scores can effectively reflect the feature's
capability in discriminating positive and negative classes. A feature's score can be
effectively represented by its SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) score, which is defined
as the ratio of the signal (inter-class distinction) and noise (intra-class) perturbation
respectively. We adopt
In order to obtain y i
r
{ μ + , μ }
{ ˃ + , ˃ }
to denote respectively the class-
conditional means and standard deviation of the (positive/negative) classes. These
parameters are computed from the row vectors of H in Eq. ( 5.23 ). The Fisher
Discriminant Ratio (FDR) [ 165 ] is utilized for the calculation of the SNR score:
and
2
( μ j μ j )
FDR
(
j
)=
(5.25)
˃ j 2
˃ j 2
+
˃ j represent the class-conditional means and standard
deviations of the j -th feature, respectively.
In this case, the magnitude of scores for all features, i.e.,
μ j ,
μ j ,
˃ j , and
where
M
j
1 can
be used to measure the relevancy of their corresponding features. More exactly, the
features h j M
j = 1
{|
FDR
(
j
) |}
=
M
j = 1 , and a
fraction of the lowest-ranked features will be eliminated. The selected feature set is
denoted as:
can be ranked accordingly to their scores
{|
FDR
(
j
) |}
{ y 1
,...,
y i
,
y i + 1
...,
y m },| FDR
(
i
) | > | FDR
(
i
+
1
) |
(5.26)
This feature set is further divided into two subsets:
y 1 ,
y 2 ,...,
y T 1
y T 1 + 1 ,
y T 1 + 2 ,...,
y m
(5.27)
Y
Y
where T 1 is the threshold value, and the subset Y contains the features having SNR
scores greater than those of the subset Y .
The feature selection process can be summarized by its flowchart shown in
Fig. 5.3 . In the final step, the selected features in Y and Y are used as a weighting
factor for the original BoW features of the query, h q = h 1 ,...,
h q M t . According to
the indexes of features in Y , and Y ,the j -th element of the query is modified by:
h j + ʵ
Y
1 y j
,
y j
h j =
h j ʵ 2 y j ,
Y
y j
(5.28)
h j
otherwise
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