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 the data collection processes, to the many ways ANNs are be...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kevin L Priddy
Format: Printed Book
Published: New Delhi. PHI Learning 2009
Edition:Eastern Economy Edition
Subjects:
Neural networks (Computer science)
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction. 1.1. The neuron
  • 1.2. Modeling neurons
  • 1.3. The feedforward neural network
  • 1.4. Historical perspective on computing with artificial neurons. Chapter 2. Learning methods. 2.1. Supervised training methods
  • 2.2. Unsupervised training methods. Chapter 3. Data normalization. 3.1. Statistical or Z-score normalization
  • 3.2. Min-max normalization
  • 3.3. Sigmoidal or SoftMax normalization
  • 3.4. Energy normalization
  • 3.5. Principal components normalization. Chapter 4. Data collection, preparation, labeling, and input coding. 4.1. Data collection
  • 4.2. Feature selection and extraction. Chapter 5. Output coding. 5.1. Classifier coding
  • 5.2. Estimator coding. Chapter 6. Post-processing. Chapter 7. Supervised training methods. 7.1. The effects of training data on neural network performance
  • 7.2. Rules of thumb for training neural networks
  • 7.3. Training and testing. Chapter 8. Unsupervised training methods. 8.1. Self-organizing maps (SOMs)
  • 8.2. Adaptive resonance theory network. Chapter 9. Recurrent neural networks. 9.1. Hopfield neural networks
  • 9.2. The bidirectional associative memory (BAM)
  • 9.3. The generalized linear neural network
  • 9.4. Real-time recurrent network
  • 9.5. Elman recurrent network. Chapter 10. A plethora of applications. 10.1. Function approximation
  • 10.2. Function approximation-Boston housing example
  • 10.3. Function approximation-cardiopulmonary modeling
  • 10.4. Pattern recognition-tree classifier example
  • 10.5. Pattern recognition-handwritten number recognition example
  • 10.6. Pattern recognition-electronic nose example
  • 10.7. Pattern recognition-airport scanner texture recognition example
  • 10.8. Self organization-serial killer data-mining example
  • 10.9. Pulse-coupled neural networks-image segmentation example. Chapter 11. Dealing with limited amounts of data. 11.1. K-fold cross-validation
  • 11.2. Leave-one-out cross-validation
  • 11.3. Jackknife resampling
  • 11.4. Bootstrap resampling. Appendix A. The feedforward neural network. A.1. Mathematics of the feedforward process
  • A.2. The backpropagation algorithm
  • A.3. Alternatives to backpropagation. Appendix B. Feature saliency. Appendix C. Matlab code for various neural networks. C.1. Matlab code for principal components normalization
  • C.2. Hopfield network
  • C.3. Generalized neural network
  • C.4. Generalized neural network example
  • C.5. ART-like network
  • C.6. Simple perceptron algorithm
  • C.7. Kohonen self-organizing feature map. Appendix D. Glossary of terms
  • References
  • Index.

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