Neural networks basic concepts

Bourquin J, Schmidli H, van Hoogevest P, Leuenberger H. Basic concepts of artificial neural networks (ANN) modelling in the application to pharmaceutical development. Pharm Dev Technol 1997 2 95-109. 

Agatonovic-Kustrin, S. Beresford, R. Basic concepts of artificial neural network modelling and its application in pharmaceutical research. J. Pharm. Biomed. Anal. 2000, 22, 717-727. 

An elementary way to handle the delocalization energy and the distribution of charge and spin densities in conjugated systems is to use the method of resonance structures, a concept taught in basic courses on organic chemistry. Just by using a pen, paper, and his or her own neural network, a chemist may get results as reliable as those obtained with the much more sophisticated molecular orbital calculations nowadays offered as easy-to-use personal computer (PC) cookbook programs. 

Undoubtedly the most basic concepts pertaining to artificial neural networks are those of a neuron, whose biologically inspired meaning is some elementary signal processing unit , and of a connection between... 

For further information about basic concepts pertaining to artificial neural networks in general, and to multilayer perceptrons in particular, the reader is referred to specialised monographs such as White (1992), Hagan et al. (1996), Mehrotra et al. (1996) and Haykin (1999). An overview of traditional kinds of ANN applications in chemistry can most easily be obtained from the books by Zupan and Gasteiger (1993, 1999), and from the survey papers by Meissen et al. (1994), Smits et al. (1994) and Henson (1998). 

Kartalopoulos, S. V. Understanding Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Basic Concepts and Applications ISBN 09017162610 Prentice-Hall of India Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi,... 

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