This article describes a new approach to the automated construction of a distributed neural classifier. The methodology is based upon supervised hierarchical clustering which enables one to determine reliable regions in the representation space. The proposed methodology proceeds by associating each of these regions with a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP). Each MLP has to recognise elements inside i...

This paper presents an application of Multi-layer Perceptrons (MLP) neural networks to model the demographic characteristics of antenatal clinic attendees in South Africa. The method of cross-validation is used to examine the betweensample variation of neural networks for HIV prediction. MLP neural networks for classifying both the HIV negative and positive clinic attendees are developed and ev...

In this work, a recently derived recursive least-square (RLS) algorithm to train multi layer perceptron (MLP) is used in an MLP-based decision feedback equalizer (DFE) instead of the back propagation (BP) algorithm. Its performance is investigated and compared to those of MLP-DFE based on the BP algorithm and the simple DFE based on the least-mean square (LMS) algorithm. The results show improv...

Link admission control (LAC) in broadband ATM networks is based on evaluation of expected traffic performance. The traditional LAC approach relies on approximate analytical performance models, and can lead to an over controlled network. This paper presents a hybrid LAC scheme which uses a multi layer perceptron (MLP) to refine the performance estimate of a traditional analytical approximation. ...

The ability of Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) and Neuro-Fuzzy neural networks to classify corn seed varieties based on mixed morphological and color Features has been evaluated that would be helpful for automation of corn handling. This research was done in Islamic Azad University, Shahr-e-Rey Branch, during 2011 on 5 main corn varieties were grown in different environments of Iran. A total of 12...

The aim of our study is to propose an approach for transfer function placental development using ultrasound images. This approach is based to the selection of tissues, feature extraction by discrete cosine transform DCT, discrete wavelet transform DWT and classification of different grades of placenta by artificial neural network and especially the multi layer perceptron MLP. The proposed appro...

In this paper, Rough Sets approach has been used to reduce the number of inputs for two neural networks-based applications that are, diagnosing plant diseases and intrusion detection. After the reduction process, and as a result of decreasing the complexity of the classifiers, the results obtained using Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) revealed a great deal of classification accuracy without affect...

Procedures using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) are developed for characterizing square microstrip antennas. A Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) is used to find out the resonant frequency of the antennas. Same ANN is used to accomplish the task of obtaining different important antenna characteristics like gain, return loss and bandwidth of operation at once. The developed ANN is tested experimenta...

Usually in multivariate regression problem it is assumed that residuals of outputs are independent of each other. In many applications a more realistic model would allow dependencies between the outputs. In this paper we show how a Bayesian treatment using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method can allow for a full covariance matrix with Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP) neural networks.