non-invasive ultrasound surgeries such as high intensity focused ultrasound have been developed to treat tumors or to stop bleeding. in this technique, incorporation of a suitable imaging modality to monitor and control the treatments is essential so several imaging methods such as x-ray, magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound imaging have been proposed to monitor the induced thermal lesions...

During the recent decades, neural network models have been focused upon by researchers due to their more real performance and on this basis, different types of these models have been used in forecasting. Now, there is a question that which kind of these models has more explanatory power in forecasting the future processes of the stock. In line with this, the present paper made a comparison betw...

The bulk of water pipes experience major degradation and deterioration problems. This research aims at estimating the condition in Shattora Shaker Al-Bahery’s distribution networks, Egypt. developed models involve training Elman neural network (ENN) feed-forward (FFNN) coupled with particle swarm optimization (PSO), genetic algorithms (GA), sine cosine algorithm (SCA), teaching-learning-based (...

background and aims: depression disorder is one of the most common diseases, but the diagnosis is widely complicated and controversial because of interventions, overlapping and confusing nature of the disease. so, keeping previous patients’ profile seems effective for diagnosis and treatment of present patients. use of this memory is latent in synthetic neuro-fuzzy algorithm. present article in...

Fuzzy heterogeneous networks are recently introduced feed-forward neural network models composed of neurons of a general class whose inputs and weights are mixtures of continuous variables (crisp and/or fuzzy) with discrete quantities, also admitting missing data. These networks have net input functions based on similarity relations between the inputs to and the weights of a neuron. They thus a...

In this paper we present a Feed-Foward Neural Networks Autoregressive (FFNN-AR) model with genetic algorithms training optimization in order to predict the gross domestic product growth of six countries. Specifically we propose a kind of weighted regression, which can be used for econometric purposes, where the initial inputs are multiplied by the neural networks final optimum weights from inpu...

An artificial neural network has been used to determine the volume flux and rejections of Ca2+ , Na+ and Cl¯, as a function of transmembrane pressure and concentrations of Ca2+, polyethyleneimine, and polyacrylic acid in water softening by nanofiltration process in presence of polyelectrolytes. The feed-forward multi-layer perceptron artificial neural network including an eight-neuron hidde...

In this paper, solution of generalized matrix Riccati differential equation (GMRDE) for indefinite stochastic linear quadratic singular system is obtained using neural networks. The goal is to provide optimal control with reduced calculus effort by comparing the solutions of GMRDE obtained from well known traditional Runge Kutta (RK) method and nontraditional neural network method. To obtain th...

This paper proposes a new method for the extraction of knowledge from a trained type feed-forward neural network. The new knowledge extracted is expressed by fuzzy rules directly from a sensibility analysis between the inputs and outputs of the relationship that model the neural network. This easy method of extraction is based on the similarity of a fuzzy set with the derivative of the tangent ...