Front matter
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Technology of Text Mining
Ari Visa
12-22
Evaluation of Clinical Relevance of Clinical Laboratory Investigations by Data Mining
Ulrich Sack and Manja Kamprad
23-34
Temporal Abstractions and Case-Based Reasoning for Medical Course Data: Two Prognostic Applications
Rainer Schmidt and Lothar Gierl
35-51
Are Case-Based Reasoning and Dissimilarity-Based Classification Two Sides of the Same Coin?
Petra Perner
52-61
FAM-Based Fuzzy Inference for Detecting Shot Transitions
Seok-Woo Jang, Gye-Young Kim and Hyung-Il Choi
62-72
Rule-Based Ensemble Solutions for Regression
Nitin Indurkhya and Sholom M. Weiss
73-87
Learning XML Grammars
Henning Fernau
88-101
First-Order Rule Induction for the Recognition of Morphological Patterns in Topographic Maps
D. Malerba, F. Esposito, A. Lanza and F. A. Lisi
102-116
Concepts Learning with Fuzzy Clustering and Relevance Feedback
Bir Bhanu and Anlei Dong
117-127
LC: A Conceptual Clustering Algorithm
José Fco. Martinez-Trinidad and Guillermo Sánchez-Diaz
128-140
Data Mining Approach Based on Information-Statistical Analysis: Application to Temporal-Spatial Data
Bon K. Sy and Arjun K. Gupta
141-156
A Hybrid Tool for Data Mining in Picture Archiving System
Petra Perner and Tatjana Belikova
157-172
Feature Selection for a Real-World Learning Task
D. Kollmar and D.H. Hellmann
173-183
Automatic Identification of Diatoms Using Decision Forests
Stefan Fischer and Horst Bunke
184-195
Validation of Text Clustering Based on Document Contents
Jarmo Toivonen, Ari Visa, Tomi Vesanen, Barbro Back and Hannu Vanharanta
196-205
Statistical and Neural Approaches for Estimating Parameters of a Speckle Model Based on the Nakagami Distribution
Mark P. Wachowiak, Renata Smolíková, Mariofanna G. Milanova and Adel S. Elmaghraby
206-216
How to Automate Neural Net Based Learning
Roland Linder and Siegfried J. Pöppl
217-225
Nonlinear Function Learning and Classification Using Optimal Radial Basis Function Networks
Adam Krzyżak
226-238
Local Learning Framework for Recognition of Lowercase Handwritten Characters
Jian-xiong Dong, Adam Krzyżak and C. Y. Suen
239-248
Mirror Image Learning for Handwritten Numeral Recognition
Meng Shi, Tetsushi Wakabayashi, Wataru Ohyama and Fumitaka Kimura
249-262
Face Detection by Aggregated Bayesian Network Classifiers
Thang V. Pham, Marcel Worring and Arnold W. M. Smeulders
263-277
Towards Self-Exploring Discriminating Features
Ying Wu and Thomas S. Huang
278-292
PCA-Based Model Selection and Fitting for Linear Manifolds
Atsushi Imiya and Hisashi Ootani
293-306
Statistics of Flow Vectors and Its Application to the Voting Method for the Detection of Flow Fields
Atsushi Imiya and Keisuke Iwawaki
307-321
On the Use of Pairwise Comparison of Hypotheses in Evolutionary Learning Applied to Learning from Visual Examples
Krzysztof Krawiec
322-336
Featureless Pattern Recognition in an Imaginary Hilbert Space and Its Application to Protein Fold Classification
Vadim Mottl, Sergey Dvoenko, Oleg Seredin, Casimir Kulikowski and Ilya Muchnik
337-346
Adaptive Query Shifting for Content-Based Image Retrieval
Giorgio Giacinto, Fabio Roli and Giorgio Fumera
347-361
Content-Based Similarity Assessment in Multi-segmented Medical Image Data Bases
George Potamias
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