Description

                   Electronic  Nose  (EN) systems utilize  commercial  gas  sensors  for  sensing  and  computer  platforms for  processing. An integrated gas sensor array, on the contrary, can increase the selectivity and detect multiple target gases with a single device. The central premise when using a feature selection technique is that the data contains many features that are either redundant or irrelevant, and can thus be removed without incurring much loss of information. Redundant or irrelevant features are two distinct notions, since one relevant feature may be redundant in the presence of another relevant feature with which it is strongly correlated. Feature selection techniques should be distinguished from feature extraction. Feature extraction creates new features from functions of the original features, whereas feature selection returns a subset of the features.