Applications of Neural Networks

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Alan Murray
Springer Science & Business Media, Dec 31, 1994 - Computers - 322 pages
Applications of Neural Networks gives a detailed description of 13 practical applications of neural networks, selected because the tasks performed by the neural networks are real and significant. The contributions are from leading researchers in neural networks and, as a whole, provide a balanced coverage across a range of application areas and algorithms. The book is divided into three sections. Section A is an introduction to neural networks for nonspecialists. Section B looks at examples of applications using `Supervised Training'. Section C presents a number of examples of `Unsupervised Training'.
For neural network enthusiasts and interested, open-minded sceptics. The book leads the latter through the fundamentals into a convincing and varied series of neural success stories -- described carefully and honestly without over-claiming. Applications of Neural Networks is essential reading for all researchers and designers who are tasked with using neural networks in real life applications.

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Contents

NEURAL ARCHITECTURES AND ALGORITHMS
1
12 The Single Layer Perceptron SLP
2
13 The MultiLayer Perceptron MLP
8
14 Radial Basis Function Networks
14
15 Kohonens SelfOrganising Feature Map Networks
17
16 Alternative Training Approaches for Layered Networks
21
17 Summary
28
FACE FINDING IN IMAGES
35
ELECTRICAL LOAD FORECASTING
157
2 THE LOAD FORECASTING PROBLEM
159
3 KOHONENS SELFORGANISING FEATURE MAPS
163
4 APPLICATION OF SELFORGANISING FEATURE MAPS TO DAY TYPE IDENTIFICATION
167
5 APPLICATION OF MULTILAYER FEEDFORWARD ANN TO PEAK LOAD AND VALLEY LOAD PREDICTION
177
6 CONCLUSIONS
181
ON THE APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS TO PROCESS CONTROL
191
2 FEEDFORWARD ARTD7ICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
193

2 GENERATION OF FEATURE MAPS
37
3 FEATURE LOCATION IN THE HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE
53
4 EXPERIMENTS WITH FRESHLY GRABBED SEQUENCES
58
Sex Recognition from Faces Using Neural Networks
71
2 METHODS
75
3 RESULTS
82
4 DISCUSSION
83
ANN BASED CLASSIFICATION OF ARRHYTHMIAS
93
2 DATA PREPROCESSING AND FEATURE EXTRACTION
96
3 SINGLE CHAMBER CLASSIFICATION
98
4 DUAL CHAMBER BASED CLASSIFICATION
106
5 MICROELECTRONIC IMPLEMENTATIONS
107
6 CONCLUSIONS
111
CLASSIFICATION OF CELLS IN CERVICAL SMEARS
113
2 APPPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
114
3 THE PAPNET SYSTEM
115
4 DEVISING A WORKING PROTOCOL FOR PAPNETASSISTED SCREENING
116
5 PAPNETASSISTED SCREENING VERSUS CONVENTIONAL SCREENING
118
6 PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF PAPNETASSISTED SCREENING
120
7 PAPNETASSISTED RESCREENING FOR QUALITY CONTROL
121
8 PAPNET FOR DETECTION OF CANCER CELLS IN FALSENEGATIVE SMEARS
122
MULTIPHASE FLOW MONITORING IN OIL PIPELINES
133
2 GAMMA DENSITOMETRY AND MULTIPHASE FLOWS
135
3 GENERATION OF DATASETS
139
4 THE NEURAL NETWORK APPROACH
142
5 PREDICTION OF PHASE FRACTIONS
144
6 EFFECTS OF NOISE ON INPUTS
146
7 NOVELTY DETECTION AND NETWORK VALIDATION
150
8 DISCUSSION
153
3 DYNAMIC ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
196
4 INFERENTIAL ESTIMATION
199
7 CONCLUDING REMARKS
216
NESTED NETWORKS FOR ROBOT CONTROL
221
1 INTRODUCTION
222
2 THE NESTED NETWORK METHOD
225
3 SIMULATION RESULTS
232
4 CONCLUSION
235
ADAPTIVE EQUALISATION USING NEURAL NETWORKS
241
102 TRANSVERSAL EQUALISER
245
103 BAYESIAN TRANSVERSAL EQUALISER
249
104 DECISION FEEDBACK EQUALISER
257
105 A COMPARISON WITH THE MLVA
260
106 CONCLUSIONS
262
TDGAMMON A SELFTEACHING BACKGAMMON PROGRAM
267
TD LEARNING OF BACKGAMMON STRATEGY
270
TDGAMMON 10
276
4 CURRENT STATUS OF TDGAMMON
278
5 CONCLUSIONS
282
TEMPORAL DIFFERENCE LEARNING A CHEMICAL PROCESS CONTROL APPLICATION
287
2 THE APPLICATION
291
3 DISCUSSION
297
4 CONCLUSION
298
AUTOMATED SLEEP EEG ANALYSIS USING AN RBF NETWORK
305
01 INTRODUCTION
306
02 EEG DATABASE
308
04 UNSUPERVISED LEARNING
309
05 SUPERVISED LEARNING
315
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Alan Murray is the Washington bureau chief of the "Wall Street Journal", a columnist for "SmartMoney" magazine, and a twice-daily commentator on CNBC. He is the author, with Jeffrey Birnbaum, of "Showdown at Gucci Gulch". He lives in Washington, D.C.