So far, considerable research efforts have been invested in the are of using statistical methods for image processing purposes yielding to a significant amount of models that aim to improve as much as possible the still existing and currently used processing techniques, some of them being based...

Kernel methods and support vector machines have become the most popular learning from examples paradigms. Several areas of application research make use of SVM approaches as for instance hand written character recognition, text categorization, face detection, pharmaceutical data analysis and...

Data mining is an evolving and growing area of research and involves interdisciplinary research and development encompassing diverse domains. In this age of multimedia data exploration, data mining should no longer be restricted to the mining of knowledge from large volumes of high-dimensional...

An important feature of neural networks is the ability they have to learn from their environment, and, through learning to improve performance in some sense. In the following we restrict the development to the problem of feature extracting unsupervised neural networks derived on the base of the...