first problem I am facing is the installation I have extracted libsvm n placed in toolbox folder of matlab also used mex -setup to get compiler I get a message that api has changed etc , but nothing further.
I need guidance on how to get started with libsvm in matlab and the classification task is classifying the healthy n non healthy tissue.
1. I do not think you can use without a "healthy" mex setup. If the compiler does not work there might be several reasons for that (e.g. very sensitive to path, to spaces in directory names..etc). You can read up on this, plenty of material on the web.
2. I have only used the lib-svm for multi-class classification with a Matlab code (adapted from Phyton) to optimize the SVM parameters. I can send this if interested.