Book excerpt: This review volume provides from both theoretical and application points of views, recent developments and state-of-the-art reviews in various areas of pattern recognition, image processing, machine learning, soft computing, data mining and web intelligence.Machine Interpretation of Patterns: Image Analysis and Data Mining is an essential and invaluable resource for professionals and advanced graduates in computer science, mathematics and life sciences. It can also be considered as an integrated volume to researchers interested in doing interdisciplinary research where computer science is a component.