ANOVA–Mutual Information Feature Selection with CatBoost for Gallstone Disease Classification
Gallstone disease is a common biliary disorder forwhich non-invasive, ultrasonography-independent risk assessmentmay support clinical decision-making. This study proposesan ANOVA–Mutual Information (ANOVA–MI) feature-selectionframework combined with CatBoost, evaluated on 319 patientsand 38 candidate predictors from th...