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J. Biomedical Science and Engineering, 2009, 2, 637-643 JBiSE doi: 10.4236/jbise.2009.28093 Published Online December 2009 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jbise/). Application of SOM neural network in clustering Soroor Behbahani , Ali Moti Nasrabadi 1 2 1 2 Biomedical Engineering Department, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran; Biomedical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran. Email: soroor_behbahani@; a_m_nasrabadi@ Received 11 June 2009; revised 29 June 2009; accepted 27 July 2009. ABSTRACT widespread use is the identification and visualization of natural groupings in the data. The process of finding similar items is generally referred to as clustering. Compared to the k-means clustering algorithm, the SOM exemplifies a robust and structured self-organizing neu- ral networks are based on the principle of transforming a set of p-variate observations into a spatial representation of smaller dimensionality, which may allow a more ef- fective visualization of correlations in the original data [4]. The Self-Organizing Map (SOM) is an unsupervised neural network algorithm that projects high-dimen- sional data onto a two-dimensional map. The projec- tion preserves the topology of the data so that similar data items will be mapped to nearby locations on the map. One of the SOM neural network’s applications is clustering of animals due their features. In this paper we produce an experiment to analyze the SOM in clustering different species of animals. 2. SELF-ORGANIZING MAP Keywords: SOM Neural Network; Feature; Clustering; The Self-Organizing Map belongs to the class of unsu- pervised and competitive learning algorithms. It is a sheet-like neural network, with nodes arranged as a regular, usually two-dimensional grid. As explained in the previous section on Neur