Artificial neural networks : methods and applications / edit by David J. Livingstone

Index included

Artificial neural networks in biology and chemistry : the evolution of a new analytical tool / Hugh M. Cartwright -- Overview of artificial neural networks / Jinming Zou, Yi Han, and Sung-Sau So -- Bayesian regularization of neural networks / Frank Burden and Dave Winkler -- Kohonen and counterpropagation neural networks applied for mapping and interpretation of IR spectra / Marjana Novic -- Artificial neural network modeling in environmental toxicology / James Devillers -- Neural networks in analytical chemistry / Mehdi Jalali-Heravi -- Application of artificial neural networks for decision support in medicine / Brendan Larder, Dechao Wang, and Andy Revell -- Neural networks in building QSAR models / Igor I. Baskin, Vladimir A. Palyulin, and Nikolai S. Zefirov -- Peptide bioinformatics : peptide classification using peptide machines / Zheng Rong Yang -- Associative neural network / Igor V. Tetko -- Neural networks predict protein structure and function / Marco Punta and Burkhard Rost -- The extraction of information and knowledge from trained neural networks / David J. Livingstone ... [et al.]

Reports the history of the application of ANN to chemical and biological problems, provides a guide to network architectures, training and the extraction of rules from trained networks, and covers