SUMMARY
Abstract Curse of dimensionality is a major problem in most classification tasks. Feature transformation and feature selection as a feature reduction method can be applied to overcome this problem. Despite of its good performance, feature transformation is not easily interpretable because the physical meaning of the original features cannot be retrieved. On the other side, feature selection with its simple computational process is able to reduce unwanted features and visualize the data to facilitate data understanding. We propose a new feature selection method using similarity based entropy to overcome the high dimensional data problem. Using 6 datasets with high dimensional feature, we have computed the similarity between feature vector and class vector. Then we find the maximum similarity that can be used for calculating the entropy values of each feature. The selected features are features that having higher entropy than mean entropy of overall features. The fuzzy k-NN classifier was implemented to evaluate the selected features. The experiment result shows that proposed method is able to deal with high dimensional data problem with average accuracy of 80.5%.