the present study is an attempt to investigate some features of radial basis functions (rbfs) approximation methods related to variational problems. thereby authors applied some properties of rbfs to develop a direct method which reduces constrained variational problem to a static optimization problem. to assess the applicability and effectiveness of the method, some examples are examined. dyna...

This paper presents an axiomatic approach for constructing radial basis function (RBF) neural networks. This approach results in a broad variety of admissible RBF models, including those employing Gaussian RBF's. The form of the RBF's is determined by a generator function. New RBF models can be developed according to the proposed approach by selecting generator functions other than exponential ...

Landmark-based registration using radial basis functions (RBF) is an efficient and mathematically transparent method for the registration of medical images. To ensure invertibility and diffeomorphism of the RBF-based vector field, various regularization schemes have been suggested. Here, we report a novel analytic method of RBF regularization and demonstrate its power for Gaussian RBF. Our anal...

The local radial basis function (RBF) interpolation method enables very large-scale data sets to be handled efficiently, overcoming the drawbacks of global interpolation which produces highly ill-conditioned linear systems. Whereas there have been intensive studies on the accuracy of global RBF interpolation, the error analysis of local RBF interpolation is much less investigated. In this regar...

Recently, a novelty multinomial logistic regression method where the initial covariate space is increased by adding the nonlinear transformations of the input variables given by Gaussian Radial Basis Functions (RBFs) obtained by an evolutionary algorithm was proposed. However, there still exist some problems with the standard Gaussian RBF, for example, the approximation of constant valued funct...

An important problem in engineering is the identification of nonlinear systems, among them radial basis function neural networks (RBF-NN) using Gaussian activation functions models, which have received particular attention due to their potential to approximate nonlinear behavior. Several design methods have been proposed for choosing the centers and spread of Gaussian functions and training the...

Radical Basis Function (RBF) networks have been widely used in time series prediction because of their simplicity, robustness, good approximation and generalization ability. However, it is still rather difficult to select the number and locations of the hidden units of the RBF network appropriately for a specific time series prediction problem. In this paper, the Generalized RBF networks have b...

Function approximation has been found in many applications. The radial basis function (RBF) network is one approach which has shown a great promise in this sort of problems because of its faster learning capacity. A traditional RBF network takes Gaussian functions as its basis functions and adopts the least-squares criterion as the objective function, However, it still suffers from two major pr...

To reduce the Gaussian noise from Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) corrupted during their acquisition process, we propose a filtering method based RBF neural network. Indeed, the Gaussian noise is considered and formulated as constraints in an energy functional base on minimization of Total Variation (TV). In the RBF training stage, the backprobagation algorithm is used to solve the TV functional...

Conventionally, in radial basis function (RBF) network width factor is constructed by obtaining r-nearest neighbor rule or taking equal to a constant for all Gaussian functions. This paper proposes an approach for the construction of width factor using genetic algorithm to optimize the Gaussian function. Our experimental results show that our proposed optimal-based width outperforms the convent...