Purushottam Das

Image classification is a significant process in the field of computer science. It has applications in every field, such as spam detection in emails, medical diagnosis, image recognition, sentiment analysis, object detection, weather forecasting, pattern recognition, and security. Image classification deals with the grouping of images based on labels or characteristics. Feature extraction, feature selection, feature reduction, and classification are the main steps used to classify images. A medicinal and non-medicinal flowers data set is prepared by clicking images for the study. Methodology is used to achieve satisfactory classification results on the seeds, Wisconsin Diagnostic Breast Cancer, Heart Failure Clinical Records, and Wisconsin Prognostic Breast Cancer data sets, which are taken from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) repository. The proposed methodology suggests an efficient feature extraction and selection approach for data sets under consideration. An information gain-based genetic algorithm is used for feature reduction. It is performed on the extracted features to retrieve an optimized feature set. Fitness of the features is evaluated to choose the most relevant features. A neural network is used to classify the obtained feature subset. Better classification results are attained with the help of feature extraction and feature reduction.