Engineering Applications of Bio-Inspired Artificial Neural Networks

A unified model for the simulation of artificial and biology-oriented neural networks.- Weight freezing in constructive neural networks: A novel approach.- Can general purpose micro-processors simulate neural networks in real-time?.- Large neural net simulation under Beowulf-like systems.- A constructive cascade network with adaptive regularisation.- An agent-based operational model for hybrid connectionist-symbolic learning.- Optimal discrete recombination: Hybridising evolution strategies with the A algorithm.- Extracting rules from artificial neural networks with kernel-based representations.- Rule improvement through decision boundary detection using sensitivity analysis.- The role of dynamic reconfiguration for implementing artificial neural networks models in programmable hardware.- An associative neural network and its special purpose pipeline architecture in image analysis.- Effects of global perturbations on learning capability in a CMOS analogue implementation of synchronous Boltzmann machine.- Beta-CMOS artificial neuron and implementability limits.- Using on-line arithmetic and reconfiguration for neuroprocessor implementation.- Digital implementation of artificial neural networks: From VHDL description to FPGA implementation.- Hardware implementation using DSP's of the neurocontrol of a wheelchair.- Forward-backward parallelism in on-line backpropagation.- A VLSI approach for spike timing coding.- An artificial dendrite using active channels.- Analog electronic system for simulating biological neurons.- Neural addition and fibonacci numbers.- Adaptive cooperation between processors in a parallel Boltzmann machine implementation.- Adaptive Brain Interfaces.- Identifying mental tasks from spontaneous EEG: Signal representation and spatial analysis.- Independent component analysis of human brain waves.- EEG-based brain-computer interface using subject-specific spatial filters.- Multi-neural network approach for classification of brainstem evoked response auditory.- EEG-based cognitive task classification with ICA and neural networks.- Local pattern of synchronization in extraestriate networks during visual attention.- A bioinspired hierarchical system for speech recognition.- A neural network approach for the analysis of multineural recordings in retinal ganglion cells.- Challenges for a real-world information processing by means of real-time neural computation and real-conditions simulation.- A parametrizable design of the mechanical-neural transduction system of the auditory brainstem.- Development of a new space perception system for blind people, based on the creation of a virtual acoustic space.- Application of the Fuzzy Kohonen Clustering Network to biological macromolecules images classification.- Bayesian VQ image filtering design with fast adaption competitive neural networks.- Neural networks for coefficient prediction in wavelet image coders.- A neural network architecture for trademark image retrieval.- Improved automatic classification of biological particles from electron-microscopy images using genetic neural nets.- Pattern recognition using neural network based on multi-valued neurons.- Input pre-processing for transformation invariant pattern recognition.- Method for automatic karyotyping of human chromosomes based on the visual attention system.- Adaptive adjustment of the CNN output function to obtain contrast enhancement.- Application of ANN techniques to automated identification of bovine livestock.- An investigation into cellular neural networks internal dynamics applied to image processing.- Autopoiesis and image processing: Detection of structure and organization in images.- Preprocessing of radiological images: Comparison of the application of polynomic algorithms and artificial neural networks to the elimination of variations in background luminosity.- Feature extraction with an associative neural network and its application in industrial quality control.- Genetic algorithm based training for multilayer discrete-time cellular neural networks.- How to select the inputs for a multilayer feedforward network by using the training set.- Neural implementation of the JADE-algorithm.- Variable selection by recurrent neural networks. Application in structure activity relationship study of cephalosporins.- Optimal use of a trained neural network for input selection.- Applying evolution strategies to neural networks robot controller.- On virtual sensory coding: An analytical model of the endogenous representation.- Using temporal information in ANNs for the implementation of autonomous robot controllers.- Learning symbolic rules with a reactive with tags classifier system in robot navigation.- Small sample discrimination and professional performance assessment.- SOM based analysis of pulping process data.- Gradient descent learning algorithm for hierarchical neural networks: A case study in industrial quality.- Application of neural networks for automated X-ray image inspection in electronics manufacturing.- Forecasting financial time series through intrinsic dimension estimation and non-linear data projection.- Parametric characterization of hardness profiles of steels with neuro-wavelet networks.- Study of two ANN digital implementations of a radar detector candidate to an on-board satellite experiment.- Curvilinear component analysis for high-dimensional data representation: I. Theoretical aspects and practical use in the presence of noise.- Curvilinear Component Analysis for high-dimensional data representation: II. Examples of additional mapping constraints in specific applications.- Image motion analysis using scale space approximation and simulated annealing.- Blind inversion of Wiener systems.- Separation of speech signals for nonlinear mixtures.- Nonlinear blind source separation by pattern repulsion.- Text-to-text machine translation using the RECONTRA connectionist model.- An intelligent agent for brokering problem-solving knowledge.- A system for facilitating and enhancing web search.- Applying Ontology to the web: A case study.- How to find suitable ontologies using an ontology-based WWW broker.- Towards personalized distance learning on the web.- Visual knowledge engineering as a cognitive tool.- Optimizing web newspaper layout using simulated annealing.- Artificial neural network-based diagnostic system methodology.- Neural networks in automatic diagnosis malignant brain tumors.- A new evolutionary diagram: Application to BTGP and information retrieval.- Artificial neural networks as useful tools for the optimization of the relative offset between two consecutive sets of traffic lights.- ASGCS: A new self-organizing network for automatic selection of feature variables.- Adaptive hybrid speech coding with a MLP/LPC structure.- Neural predictive coding for speech signal.- Support vector machines for multi-class classification.- Self-organizing yprel network population for distributed classification problem solving.- An accurate measure for multilayer perceptron tolerance to additive weight deviations.- Fuzzy inputs and missing data in similarity-based heterogeneous neural networks.- A neural network approach for generating solar irradiation artificial series.- Color recipe specification in the textile print shop using radial basis function networks.- Predicting the speed of beer fermentation in laboratory and industrial scale.