Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes the results of fundamental and applied scientific research in the fields of image processing, recognition, analysis and understanding, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, and related fields of theoretical and applied computer science and applied mathematics. The journal also embraces the problems of analyzing and evaluating poorly formalized, poorly structured, incomplete, contradictory and noisy information, including artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, medical informatics, data mining, big data analysis, machine vision, data representation and modeling, data and knowledge extraction from images, machine learning, forecasting, machine graphics, databases, knowledge bases, medical and technical diagnostics, neural networks, specialized software, specialized computational architectures for information analysis and evaluation, linguistic, psychological, psychophysical, and physiological aspects of image analysis and pattern recognition, applied problems, and related problems. The journal makes it possible to rapidly publish original research articles and critical reviews. It features articles written by the world's leading scientists and solicited by the editorial board. Some of the journal issues are devoted to specific themes or proceedings of international conferences and workshops. The journal is one of the top ten global periodicals on image analysis and pattern recognition and is the only publication on this topic in Central and Eastern Europe. The journal is an international publication and publishes manuscripts originally submitted in English from all countries along with translated works.