Symbolic regression and feature construction with GP-GOMEA applied to radiotherapy dose reconstruction of childhood cancer survivors

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@InProceedings{Virgolin:2018:GECCO,

• author = "Marco Virgolin and Tanja Alderliesten and Arjan Bel and Cees Witteveen and Peter A. N. Bosman",
• title = "Symbolic regression and feature construction with {GP-GOMEA} applied to radiotherapy dose reconstruction of childhood cancer survivors",
• booktitle = "GECCO '18: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference",
• year = "2018",
• editor = "Hernan Aguirre and Keiki Takadama and Hisashi Handa and Arnaud Liefooghe and Tomohiro Yoshikawa and Andrew M. Sutton and Satoshi Ono and Francisco Chicano and Shinichi Shirakawa and Zdenek Vasicek and Roderich Gross and Andries Engelbrecht and Emma Hart and Sebastian Risi and Ekart Aniko and Julian Togelius and Sebastien Verel and Christian Blum and Will Browne and Yusuke Nojima and Tea Tusar and Qingfu Zhang and Nikolaus Hansen and Jose Antonio Lozano and Dirk Thierens and Tian-Li Yu and Juergen Branke and Yaochu Jin and Sara Silva and Hitoshi Iba and Anna I Esparcia-Alcazar and Thomas Bartz-Beielstein and Federica Sarro and Giuliano Antoniol and Anne Auger and Per Kristian Lehre",
• isbn13 = "978-1-4503-5618-3",
• pages = "1395--1402",
• address = "Kyoto, Japan",
• DOI = "doi:10.1145/3205455.3205604",
• publisher = "ACM",
• publisher_address = "New York, NY, USA",
• month = "15-19 " # jul,
• organisation = "SIGEVO",
• keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming",
• abstract = "the recently introduced Gene-pool Optimal Mixing Evolutionary Algorithm for Genetic Programming (GP-GOMEA) has been shown to find much smaller solutions of equally high quality compared to other state-of-the-art GP approaches. This is an interesting aspect as small solutions better enable human interpretation. In this paper, an adaptation of GP-GOMEA to tackle real-world symbolic regression is proposed, in order to find small yet accurate mathematical expressions, and with an application to a problem of clinical interest. For radiotherapy dose reconstruction, a model is sought that captures anatomical patient similarity. This problem is particularly interesting because while features are patient-specific, the variable to regress is a distance, and is defined over patient pairs. We show that on benchmark problems as well as on the application, GP-GOMEA outperforms variants of standard GP. To find even more accurate models, we further consider an evolutionary meta learning approach, where GP-GOMEA is used to construct small, yet effective features for a different machine learning algorithm. Experimental results show how this approach significantly improves the performance of linear regression, support vector machines, and random forest, while providing meaningful and interpretable features.",
• notes = "Also known as \cite{3205604} GECCO-2018 A Recombination of the 27th International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA-2018) and the 23rd Annual Genetic Programming Conference (GP-2018)",

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Genetic Programming entries for Marco Virgolin Tanja Alderliesten Arjan Bel Cees Witteveen Peter A N Bosman

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