Title
RFE-SVM for discrimination of Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae through chromatography
Abstract
Chromatography has been widely used in discrimination and quality control for Chinese medicines (CMs). Nevertheless, regular analytical approaches are not applicable if training samples are small while features are large. Support vector machine (SVM) with recursive feature elimination algorithm (RFE-SVM) is presented in this study for discrimination of Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae through small chromatographic samples. The primary strategies of the proposed method are as follows: firstly, features for analysis are extracted according to the aligned chromatographic fingerprints (CFs), then RFE was designed to filter some irrelevant features. As result, the remaining features were adopted as input features for the proposed approach in identification of Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae, a genuine herbal medicine of Guangdong Province. RFE-SVM classifier achieved a satisfactory prediction performance with an accuracy of 93.8%, following the leave-one-out cross validation procedure. The proposed algorithms improve the accuracy of identification significantly compared with SVM, Fscore-SVM and Hierarchical clustering analysis (HCA) on chromatographic analysis. The study demonstrates the presented method shows interpretability and applicability for pattern recognition in chromatographic fingerprints of CMs on the occasion of limited training samples.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/ICMLC.2016.7872997
2016 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Support vector machine,Recursive feature elimination,Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae,Chemometrics
Data mining,Computer science,Fingerprint recognition,Artificial intelligence,Chromatography,Classifier (linguistics),Hierarchical clustering,Interpretability,Pattern recognition,Support vector machine,Feature extraction,Statistical classification,Cross-validation,Machine learning
Conference
Volume
ISBN
Citations 
2
978-1-5090-0391-4
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
4
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yue Zhang100.34
li lin200.68
Kai Wu3219.25
Hang Wei401.01
Xia Li528743.42
Zhi Li647893.46
Long-Kai Qi700.34
Qinqun Chen802.03