Evolutionary algorithms have been widely used for Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) training, being the idea to update the neurons' weights using social dynamics of living organisms in order to decrease the classification error. In this paper, we have introduced Social-Spider Optimization to improve the training phase of ANN with Multilayer perceptrons, and we validated the proposed approach in the context of Parkinson's Disease recognition. The experimental section has been carried out against with five other well-known meta-heuristics techniques, and it has shown SSO can be a suitable approach for ANN-MLP training step.

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Abstract-In Computer-Aided Diagnosis-based schemes in mammography analysis each module is interconnected, which directly affects the system operation as a whole. The identification of mammograms with and without masses is highly needed to reduce the false positive rates regarding the automatic selection of regions of interest for further image segmentation. This study aims to evaluate the performance of three techniques in classifying regions of interest as containing masses or without masses (without clinical findings), as well as the main contribution of this work is to introduce the Optimum-Path Forest (OPF) classifier in this context, which has never been done so far. Thus, we have compared OPF against with two sorts of neural networks in a private dataset composed by 120 images: Radial Basis Function and Multilayer Perceptron (MLP). Texture features have been used for such purpose, and the experiments have demonstrated that MLP networks have been slightly better than OPF, but the former is much faster, which can be a suitable tool for real-time recognition systems.

Abstract-Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) can be divided into two main categories : CADe (Computer-Aided Detection), which is focused on the detection of structures of interest, as well as to assist radiologists to find out signals of interest that might be hidden to human vision; and the CADx (ComputerAided Diagnosis), which works as a second observer, being responsible to give an opinion on a specific lesion. In CADe -based systems, the identification of mammograms with and without masses is highly needed to reduce the false positive rates regarding the automatic selection of regions of interest. The main contribution of this study is to introduce the unsupervised classifier Optimum-Path Forest to identify breast masses, and to evaluate its performance against with two other unsupervised techniques (Gaussian Mixture Model and k-Means) using texture features from images obtained from a private dataset composed by 120 images with and without the presence of masses.

Anomalies in computer networks has increased in the last decades and raised concern to create techniques to identify these unusual traffic patterns. This research aims to use data mining techniques in order to correctly identify these anomalies, particularly in spam detection, for it was applied an collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks and an dataset called SPAMBASE to identify the best techniques for this type of anomaly.

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