When discussing classification, support vector machines are known to be a capable and efficient technique to learn and predict with high accuracy within a quick time frame. Yet, their black box means to do so make the practical users quite circumspect about relying on it, without much understanding of the how and why of its predictions. The question raised in this book is how can this 'masked hero' be made more comprehensible and friendly to the public: provide a surrogate model for its hidden optimization engine, replace the method completely or appoint a more friendly approach to tag along and offer the much desired explanations? Evolutionary algorithms can do all these and this book presents such possibilities of achieving high accuracy, comprehensibility, reasonable runtime as well as unconstrained performance.

Guides the reader from single methodologies, like support vector machines and evolutionary algorithms, to hybridization at different levels between the two, showing the benefits and drawbacks of each Contains new approaches to classification personally developed and tested by the authors based on evolutionary algorithms and support vector machines Fills the gaps between theoretical classification and the practical issues revolving around computer aided diagnosis

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Support Vector Machines.- Evolutionary Algorithms.- Support Vector Machines and Evolutionary Algorithms.