Stimulus related data analysis by structured neural networks

  • Authors:
  • Bernd Brückner

  • Affiliations:
  • Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ICONIP'06 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Neural information processing - Volume Part III
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In the analysis of biological data artificial neural networks are a useful alternative to conventional statistical methods. Because of its advantage in analyzing time courses the Multilevel Hypermap Architecture (MHA) is used for analysis of stimulus related data, exemplified by fMRI studies with auditory stimuli. Results from investigations with the MHA show an improvement of discrimination in comparison to statistical methods. With an interface to the well known BrainVoyager software and with a GUI for MATLAB an easy usability of the MHA and a good visualization of the results is possible. The MHA is an extension of the Hypermap introduced by Kohonen. By means of the MHA it is possible to analyze structured or hierarchical data (data with priorities, data with context, time series, data with varying exactness), which is difficult or impossible to do with known self-organizing maps so far.