Principal component analysis(PCA) is a common method for feature selection. The classical procedure to obtain
principal components is calculating the correlation matrix between features. However, the correlation cannot reflect the
nonlinear relationship. Mutual information measures the interdependence strength between variables which are not limited
to the linear correlation. PCA based on mutual information(MIPCA) for feature selection is presented. The algorithm
calculates the mutual information matrix and extracts the eigenvalues as the criteria to determine the number of principal
components and assess the effect of feature selection. Finally, the proposed algorithm is compared with PCA by cases, and
the efficiency of classification is tested by neuron network.

mutual information;principal component analysis;feature selection