Although many methods have been implemented in the past, face recognition is still an active field of research especially after the current increased interest in security. In this paper, a face recognition system using Kernel Discriminant Analysis (KDA) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) with K-nearest neighbor (KNN) methods is presented. The kernel discriminates analysis is applied for extracting features from input images. Furthermore, SVM and KNN are employed to classify the face image based on the extracted features. This procedure is applied on each of Yale and ORL databases to evaluate the performance of the suggested system. The experimental results show that the system has a high recognition rate with accuracy up to 95.25% on the Yale database and 96% on the ORL, which are considered very good results comparing with other reported face recognition systems.

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Facial analysis has evolved to be a process of considerable importance due to its consequence on the safety and security, either individually or generally on the society level, especially in personal identification. The paper in hand applies facial identification on a facial image dataset by examining partial facial images before allocating a set of distinctive characteristics to them. Extracting the desired features from the input image is achieved by means of wavelet transform. Principal component analysis is used for feature selection, which specifies several aspects in the input image; these features are fed to two stages of classification using a support vector machine and K-nearest neighborhood to classify the face. The images used to test the strength of the suggested method are taken from the well-known (Yale) database. Test results showed the eligibility of the system when it comes to identify images and assign the correct face and name.

The different types of white blood cells equips us an important data for diagnosing and identifying of many diseases. The automation of this task can save time and avoid errors in the identification process. In this paper, we explore whether using shape features of nucleus is sufficient to classify white blood cells or not. According to this, an automatic system is implemented that is able to identify and analyze White Blood Cells (WBCs) into five categories (Basophil, Eosinophil, Lymphocyte, Monocyte, and Neutrophil). Four steps are required for such a system; the first step represents the segmentation of the cell images and the second step involves the scanning of each segmented image to prepare its dataset. Extracting the shapes and textures from scanned image are performed in the third step. Finally, different machine learning algorithms such as (K* classifier, Additive Regression, Bagging, Input Mapped Classifier, or Decision Table ) is separately applied to the extracted (shapes and textures) to obtain the results. Each algorithm results are compared to select the best one according to different criteria's.

Novel Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a type of pandemic viruses that cause respiratory tract infection in humans. The clinical imaging of Chest X-Ray (CXR) by Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) plays an important role to identify the patients who infected by COVID-19. The objective of this paper presents a Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) method for automatically classify 110 frontal CXR images of contagious people according to Normal and COVID-19 infection. The proposed method contains of four phases: image enhancement, feature extraction, feature selection and classification. Gaussian filter is performed to de-noise the images and Adaptive Histogram Equalization (AHE) for image enhancement in pre-processing step for better decision-making process. Local Binary Pattern (LBP) features set are extracted from the dataset. Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (BPSO) is considered to select the clinically relevant features and developing the robust model. The successive features are fed to Support Vector Machine (SVM) and K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) classifiers. The experimental results show that the system robustness in classification COVID-19 from Normal images with average accuracy 94.6%, sensitivity 96.2% and specificity 93%.