Data mining is the analysis step of the Knowledge Discovery in Databases process (KDD). While data mining and knowledge discovery in databases are frequently treated as synonyms, data mining is actually part of the knowledge discovery process. Data mining techniques are used to operate on large volumes of data to discover hidden patterns and relationships helpful in decision making. Diabetes is...

Support Vector Machine (SVM) is one of the most robust and accurate method amongst all the supervised machine learning techniques. Still, the performance of SVM is greatly influenced by the selection of kernel function. This research analyses the characteristics of the two well known existing kernel functions, local Gaussian Radial Basis Function and global Polynomial kernel function. Based on ...

Predicting student academic performance has long been an important research topic in many academic disciplines. The present study is the first study that develops and compares four types of mathematical models to predict student academic performance in engineering dynamics – a high-enrollment, highimpact, and core course that many engineering undergraduates are required to take. The four types ...

In this paper we propose and examine a Vector Supported Convex Hull method for feature subset selection. Within feature subspaces, the method checks locations of vectors belonging to one class with respect to the convex hull of vectors belonging to the other class. Based on such analysis a coefficient is proposed for evaluation of subspace discrimination ability. The method allows for finding s...

Robust automatic language identification (LID) is a task of identifying the language from a short utterance spoken by an unknown speaker. One of the mainstream approaches named parallel phone recognition language modeling (PPRLM) has achieved a very good performance. The log-likelihood radio (LLR) algorithm has been proposed recently to normalize posteriori probabilities which are the outputs o...

In this paper, an evaluation using various training data sets for discrimination of dysmorphic facial features with distinctive information will be presented. We utilize Gabor Wavelet Transform (GWT) as feature extractor, K-Nearest Neighbor (K-NN) and Support Vector Machines (SVM) as statistical classifiers. We analyzed the classification accuracy according to increasing dimension of training d...

A unified approach is taken for deriving new generalization data dependent bounds for several classes of algorithms explored in the existing literature by different approaches. This unified approach is based on an extension of Vapnik’s inequality for VC classes of sets to random classes of sets that is, classes depending on the random data, invariant under permutation of the data and possessing...

In this work we jointly analyze the performance of three classic Artificial Neural Network models and one Support Vector Machine with respect to a series of data complexity measures known as measures of separability of classes. In particular, we consider a Radial Basis Function Network, a Multi-Layer Perceptron, a Learning Vector Quantization, while the Sequential Minimal Optimization method is...

From a geometric perspective most nonlinear binary classification algorithms, including state of the art versions of Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Radial Basis Function Network (RBFN) classifiers, and are based on the idea of reconstructing indicator functions. We propose instead to use reconstruction of the signed distance function (SDF) as a basis for binary classification. We discuss prop...