Title
Mining and Interpretation of Critical Aspects of Infant Health Status Using Multi-Objective Evolutionary Feature Selection Approaches
Abstract
The rate of infant mortality (IMR) in a population under one year of age is a marker for infant mortality. It is a major sensitive marker of a community's overall physical health. Protecting the lives of newborns has become a challenging issue in public health, development programs, and humanitarian initiatives. Almost 10.1% infants died in the United States of America (USA) in 2021. Therefore, this paper aims to extract and understand the various influential factors causing infant deaths in the USA. A crowding distance-based multi-objective ant lion optimization (MOALO-CD) is proposed here with statistical evidence for feature selection. The proposed technique is compared with competitive metaheuristic models such as multi-objective genetic algorithm based on crowding distance (MOGA-CD), multi-objective filter approaches, and recursive feature elimination. Various machine learning classifiers are applied to the selected feature subset obtained from MOALO-CD on the USA's infant dataset. Extensive experimental results indicate that the proposed model outperforms the existing metaheuristic approaches in terms of Generational Distance, Inverted Generational Distance, Spread, and Hyper volume. Also, the comparative analysis of various machine learning models reveals that random forest achieves significantly better performance on the feature subset obtained from MOALO-CD.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3161154
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Pediatrics, Optimization, Public healthcare, Metaheuristics, Genetic algorithms, Data mining, Task analysis, Infant mortality, feature selection, multi objective optimization, genetic algorithm, ant lion optimization
Journal
10
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2169-3536
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jayashree Piri100.34
Puspanjali Mohapatra200.34
Debabrata Singh300.34
Debabrata Samanta400.34
Dilbag Singh56715.16
Manjit Kaur603.04
Heung-No Lee705.41