Fig. 2
From: Comparing different supervised machine learning algorithms for disease prediction
![Fig. 2](http://media.springernature.com/full/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1186%2Fs12911-019-1004-8/MediaObjects/12911_2019_1004_Fig2_HTML.png)
A simplified illustration of how the support vector machine works. The SVM has identified a hyperplane (actually a line) which maximises the separation between the ‘star’ and ‘circle’ classes