Assessment of Self-Organizing Map artificial neural networks for the classification of sediment quality

Environment International

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 782-790

  Alvarez Guerra, Manuel ^a   González Piñuela, Cristina ^a   Andrés, Ana ^a   Galán, Berta ^a   Viguri, Javier R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Multivariate statistical techniques; Quality assessment; Sediment; Self Organizing Map

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DATA HANDLING; DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS; QUALITY CONTROL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

ECOTOXICOLOGICAL; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL TOOLS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT QUALITY; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOTOXICOLOGY; MAPPING METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ESTUARY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SEDIMENT; SELF ORGANIZING MAP; SPAIN; WATER POLLUTION;

CANTABRIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 48549107282     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2008.01.006     Document Type: Article

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