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Pattern Recognition in MATLAB

The Pattern Recognition Toolbox for MATLAB® provides an easy to use and robust interface to dozens of pattern classification tools making cross-validation, data exploration, and classifier development rapid and simple. The PRT gives you the power to apply sophisticated data analysis techniques to your problem. If you have data and need to make predictions based on your data, the PRT can help you do more in less time.

Visualize Your Data

The PRT’s prtDataSet objects make using and visualizing your data a breeze. The multiple built in techniques for data visualization will help you interactively understand your data and develop the insights to help you make breakthroughs.

Streamline Your Processing

The PRT provides a wide array of inter-connectable pattern recognition approaches. Every PRT action can be connected to any other PRT actions to enable you to build the powerful processing pipelines to solve the problems you need to solve with a single tool.

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Built in cross-validation techniques ensure that your performance estimates are robust, and are indicative of expected operating performance, and built in support for decision making takes the guesswork out of setting optimal thresholds to make binary or M-ary decisions based on your data.

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Hi,

Thanks for checking out the PRT. The PRT is intended to help people who do machine learning handle the most common classification tasks within MATLAB. This includes things like cross-validation, data visualization, classifier development and feature selection. The PRT includes object types for data set storage, pre-processing, classification, clustering, distance calculations, outlier removal, kernel learning, data generation, scoring and classifier evaluation, feature selection, random variable definitions, and visualization. We think it serves as a great platform for both machine learning research and applied algorithm development (that’s why we built it!).

The PRT is free and released under the MIT license which means that it is free for academic and commercial use. The PRT is hosted on GitHub so feel free to fork or clone the repository or just download the latest zip.

Check out the installation instructions to get you up and running. Once installed, open up MATLAB®, and follow through with our Getting Started guide, which will walk you through some examples of using the PRT in practice and show you what the PRT can do.

Even though there are a lot of M-files in the PRT, we’ve built the PRT to be easy to use and to make it easy to find what you need from within MATLAB. For example, to find a list of all classifiers in the PRT, simply type “prtClass” and then at the MATLAB command prompt. Other object types behave the same way, e.g., prtPreProc . If you have any feed back or questions don’t hesitate to ask on on GitHub or through email at prt@newfolderconsulting.com.

We are going to start blogging every once in a while about the PRT and things it can do. We hope that it starts a conversation about the types of things people are doing with the PRT and what things people might want the PRT to do in the future.

Talk to you soon. Happy coding!

-Kenny and Pete