DIGNET: a self-organizing neural network for automatic pattern recognition and classification

The authors present a self-organizing artificial neural network (ANN) that exhibits deterministically reliable behavior to noise interference when the noise does not exceed a specified level of tolerance. The complexity of the proposed ANN, called DIGNET, in terms of neuron requirements versus stored patterns, increases linearly with the number of stored patterns and their dimensionality. The self-organization of DIGNET is based on the idea of competitive generation and elimination of attraction wells in the pattern space. The same neural network can be used for both pattern recognition and classification