A biologically inspired model for pattern recognition.pdf

Gonzalez et al. / J Zhejiang Univ-Sci B (Biomed Biotechnol) 2010 11(2):115-126 115 A biologically inspired model for pattern recognition* Eduardo GONZALEZ1, Hans LILJENSTR?M2, Yusely RUIZ1, Guang LI??3 (1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China) (2Department of Energy and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7013, SE-750, Sweden) (3National Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China) ?E-mail: guangli@ Received July 12, 2009; Revision accepted Nov. 4, 2009; Crosschecked Dec. 28, 2009 Abstract: In this paper, a novel bionic model and its performance in pattern recognition are presented and discussed. The model is constructed from a bulb model and a three-layered cortical model, mimicking the main features of the olfactory system. The olfactory bulb and cortex models are connected by feedforward and feedback fibers with dis- tributed delays. The Breast Cancer Wisconsin dataset consisting of data from 683 patients divided into benign and malignant classes is used to demonstrate the capacity of the model to learn and recognize patterns, even when these are deformed versions of the originally learned patterns. The performance of the novel model was compared with three artificial neural networks (ANNs), a back-propagation network, a support vector machine classifier, and a radial basis function classifier. All the ANNs and the olfactory bionic model were tested in a benchmark study of a standard dataset. Experimental results show that the bionic olfactory system model can learn and classify patterns based on a small training set and a few learning trials to reflect biological intelligence to some extent. Key words: Olfactory system, Neural network, Bionic model, Pattern recognition doi:10.1631/jzus.B0910427 Document code: A CLC number: Q81 1