Artificial neural networks as potential classification tools for dinoflagellate cyst images: A case using the self-organizing map clustering algorithm

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 141, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 287-302

  Weller, Andrew F ^a   Harris, Anthony J ^b   Ware, J Andrew ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

artificial neural network; cluster; dinoflagellate cysts; image analysis; palynofacies; self organizing map

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLASSIFICATION; CRETACEOUS; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; HOLOCENE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PALEOGENE; PALYNOLOGY; SELF ORGANIZATION;

ACRITARCHA; ALGAE; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 33748455224     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.06.001     Document Type: Article

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