Artificial neural networks are most suitable for solving problems that are complex, ill-defined, highly nonlinear, of many and different variables, and/or stochastic. Such problems are abundant in medicine, in finance, in security and beyond.This volume covers the basic theory and architecture of the major artificial neural networks. Uniquely, it presents 18 complete case studies of applications of neural networks in various fields, ranging from cell-shape classification to micro-trading in finance and to constellation recognition — all with their respective source codes. These case studies demonstrate to the readers in detail how such case studies are designed and executed and how their specific results are obtained.The book is written for a one-semester graduate or senior-level undergraduate course on artificial neural networks. It is also intended to be a self-study and a reference text for scientists, engineers and for researchers in medicine, finance and data mining.
This is a challenging introduction to artificial neural networks by using a number of networks through history as case studies. I used this book as a companion for a course taught by the author. The course itself was excellent, and very challenging. The book contained invaluable examples, however the descriptions were fairly brief. It is interesting in the history of the evolution of neural networks, and to use as a reference. Compared to current knowledge and use of neural networks, this is somewhat out of date, but if you need an introduction into the theory behind all neural networks and machine learning, this could be a good entry point.