Table 1.
Related researches.
Fig 1.
Iterative chart of control factor.
Fig 2.
The flowchart of IMGO.
Table 2.
Parameter settings of the comparison algorithms.
Table 3.
Details of 23 basic benchmark functions.
Table 4.
Experimental results on basic unimodal benchmark functions (f1−f7).
Fig 3.
Convergence curves of the IMGO and comparison algorithms on functions f1−f7.
Table 5.
Experimental results on basic multimodal benchmark functions (f8−f13).
Fig 4.
Convergence curves of the IMGO algorithm and comparison algorithms on functions f8−f13.
Table 6.
Experimental results on basic fixed-dimensional multimodal benchmark functions (f14−f23).
Fig 5.
Convergence curves of the IMGO algorithm and comparison algorithms on functions f14−f23.
Table 7.
The Wilcoxon rank-sum statistical test results on the 23 basic benchmark functions.
Table 8.
Details of the medical datasets.
Table 9.
Comparison in terms of the fitness values of the algorithms.
Table 10.
Comparison in terms of the sensitivity.
Table 11.
Comparison in terms of the selected features.
Fig 6.
Comparative analysis of algorithm convergence on medical datasets.
Fig 7.
Comparative analysis of feature numbers on medical datasets.
Table 12.
Comparison in terms of the Wilcoxon rank-sum statistical test with 5% among the BIMGO and the 8 comparison algorithms.
Fig 8.
Parameter sensitivity of BIMGO.
Table 13.
Mean fitness values for BIMGO using different parameters.