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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 20.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2016 Oct 10;64(2):263–273. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2016.2573285

TABLE III.

Selected Methods for Dimensionality Reduction

Method Advantages Limitations
Feature extraction: PCA,
SVD, tensor-based
approaches* [54]
Reduces dimensionality;
relatively immune to noise
Performance usually
inferior to supervised
approaches; difficult to
interpret results
Feature selection: filter-
based (mRMR), wrapper-
based (sequential feature
selection)* [55]
Reduces dimensionality;
easy to interpret
Sometimes affected by
noisy data
*

Highly impactful method with more than 50,000 relevant papers.