it has been demonstrated that anxiety is accompanied by significant warm up in the periorbital area. this warm up was attributed to the increased blood circulation in the area around the eyes. the whole pattern makes physiological and evolutionary sense since it represents a mechanism to facilitate rapid eye movements during preparedness for fight. this increased blood flow dissipates convectiv...

background: brain tissue segmentation for delineation of 3d anatomical structures from magnetic resonance (mr) images can be used for neuro-degenerative disorders, characterizing morphological differences between subjects based on volumetric analysis of gray matter (gm), white matter (wm) and cerebrospinal fluid (csf), but only if the obtained segmentation results are correct. due to image arti...

this study shows the usefulness of artificial neural network (ann) in maintenance planning and man-agement. an ann model based on the multi-layer perceptron having three hidden layers and four processing elements per layer was built to predict the expected downtime resulting from a breakdown or a maintenance activity. the model achieved an accuracy of over 70% in predicting the expected downtime.

optical coherence tomography (oct) uses the spatial and temporal coherence properties of optical waves backscattered from a tissue sample to form an image. an inherent characteristic of coherent imaging is the presence of speckle noise. in this study we use a new ensemble framework which is a combination of several multi-layer perceptron (mlp) neural networks to denoise oct images. the noise is...

In this study, we propose a multi-layer perceptron with a glial network which is inspired from the features of glias in the brain. All glias in the proposed network generate independent oscillations, and the oscillations propagate through the glial network with attenuation. We apply the proposed network to the two-spiral problem. Computer simulations show that the proposed network gains a bette...

How to reconfigure a logic gate for a variety of functions is an interesting topic. In this paper, a different method of designing logic gates are proposed. Initially, due to the training ability of the multilayer perceptron neural network, it was used to create a new type of logic and full adder gates. In this method, the perceptron network was trained and then tested. This network was 100% ac...

In this paper, both the architecture and learning procedure underlying the parallel layer perceptron is presented. This topology, di1erent to the previous ones, uses parallel layers of perceptrons to map nonlinear input–output relationships. Comparisons between the parallel layer perceptron, multi-layer perceptron and ANFIS are included and show the e1ectiveness of the proposed topology. c © 20...