Article history: Received 25 September 2011 Received in revised form 12 March 2012 Accepted 26 March 2012 Available online 27 March 2012

The process of categorizing packets into “flows” in an Internet router is called packet classification. All packets belonging to the same flow obey a pre-defined rule and are processed in a similar manner by the router. For example, all packets with the same source and destination IP addresses may be defined to form a flow. Packet classification is needed for non “best-effort” services, such as...

Automated chromosome classification has been an important pattern recognition problem for decades. In order to improve the performance of automated chromosome classification, artificial intelligence and machine learning methods have been widely used in the computer-assisted chromosome detection and classification systems. This paper is focused on these algorithms, especially on artificial neura...