RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Dohnal, Vlastimil
A1 Kuča, Kamil
A1 Jun, Daniel
T1 WHAT ARE ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS AND WHAT THEY CAN DO?
JF Biomedical papers
YR 2005
VO 149
IS 2
SP 221
OP 224
DO 10.5507/bp.2005.030
UL https://biomed.papers.upol.cz/artkey/bio-200502-0006.php
AB The artificial neural networks (ANN) are very often applied in many areas of toxicology for the solving of complex problems, such as the prediction of chemical compound properties and quantitative structure-activity relationship. The aim of this contribution is to give the basic knowledge about conception of ANN, theirs division and finally, the typical application of ANN will be discussed. Due to the diversity of architectures and adaptation algorithms, the ANNs are used in the broad spectrum of applications from the environmental processes modeling, through the optimization to quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) methods. In addition, especially ANNs with Kohonen learning are very effective classification tool. The ANNs are mostly applied in cases, where the commonly used methods does not work.