Academic Articles & Research Papers

Building neural networks

Foundations. Motivation. Neural-Network Fundamentals. Single Neuron Computations. Network Computations. Network Simulation. Foundations Summary. Suggested Readings. Bibliography. Paradigms. The Backpropagation Network. The Counterpropagatio...

Artificial neural networks: a tutorial

Artificial neural nets (ANNs) are massively parallel systems with large numbers of interconnected simple processors. The article discusses the motivations behind the development of ANNs and describes the basic biological neuron and the arti...

Applying Neural Networks: A Practical Guide

Techniques for building neural networks: introduction what are neural networks? how does neural computing differ from traditional programming? how are neural networks built? how do neural networks learn? what do I need to build an MLP? the ...

SPIKING NEURAL NETWORKS

Most current Artificial Neural Network (ANN) models are based on highly simplified brain dynamics. They have been used as powerful computational tools to solve complex pattern recognition, function estimation, and classification problems. A...

Artificial neural networks in medical diagnosis

An extensive amount of information is currently available to clinical specialists, ranging from details of clinical symptoms to various types of biochemical data and outputs of imaging devices. Each type of data provides information that mu...

Artificial Neural Networks: An Introduction

This tutorial text provides the reader with an understanding of artificial neural networks (ANNs) and their application, beginning with the biological systems which inspired them, through the learning methods that have been developed and th...

Neural Networks and Statistical Learning

Boosting Neural Networks

Boosting is a general method for improving the performance of learning algorithms. A recently proposed boosting algorithm, AdaBoost, has been applied with great success to several benchmark machine learning problems using mainly decision tr...

Intrusion Detection with Neural Networks

With the rapid expansion of computer networks during the past few years, security has become a crucial issue for modern computer systems. A good way to detect illegitimate use is through monitoring unusual user activity. Methods of intrusio...

Survey on categorical data for neural networks

Abstract This survey investigates current techniques for representing qualitative data for use as input to neural networks. Techniques for using qualitative data in neural networks are well known. However, researchers continue to discover n...

Incorporating structural plasticity into self-organization recurrent networks for sequence learning

IntroductionSpiking neural networks (SNNs), inspired by biological neural networks, have received a surge of interest due to its temporal encoding. Biological neural networks are driven by multiple plasticities, including spike timing-depen...

Overcoming catastrophic forgetting in neural networks

The ability to learn tasks in a sequential fashion is crucial to the development of artificial intelligence. Until now neural networks have not been capable of this and it has been widely thought that catastrophic forgetting is an inevitabl...

Neural Networks for Chemists

In recent years, breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) have dramatically transformed many fields. Developments in neural networks primarily drive the advances. These powerful models have demonstrated unprecedented capabilities in le...

Evaluation of noise reduction methods in digital images: Classical filtering vs adaptive learning-based models

Digital images acquired through imaging systems often lose their original fidelity due to various types of noise introduced during acquisition, storage, or transmission, consequently reducing clarity and adversely affecting subsequent image...

Overview of Artificial Neural Networks

The artificial neural network (ANN), or simply neural network, is a machine learning method evolved from the idea of simulating the human brain. The data explosion in modem drug discovery research requires sophisticated analysis methods to ...

Brain tumor grading based on Neural Networks and Convolutional Neural Networks

This paper studies brain tumor grading using multiphase MRI images and compares the results with various configurations of deep learning structure and baseline Neural Networks. The MRI images are used directly into the learning machine, wit...

Neural Networks and Deep Learning

An introduction to Neural Networks

Contents Preface 9 I FUNDAMENTALS 11 1 Introduction 13 2 Fundamentals 15 2.1 A framework for distributed representation : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 15 2.1.1 Processing units : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : ...

Evolving artificial neural networks

Learning and evolution are two fundamental forms of adaptation. There has been a great interest in combining learning and evolution with artificial neural networks (ANNs) in recent years. This paper: 1) reviews different combinations betwee...

Neural Networks for Chemists: An Introduction

From the Publisher: This book gives chemists insight into the much discussed and often not fully understood concept of neural networks. The authors pinpoint the five most widely used neural networks and learning strategies, illustrating th...