The detection theory of self-organizing feature map and its application

Artificial neural network models have previously been studied in the hope of achieving human-like performance in the field of information processing. The optimized learning rule, based on the Kohonen self-organizing feature map, is modified in order to decrease the fuzziness on the edges of the topological neighbors. The authors describe the mathematical mechanisms of multidimensional detection, and its application in a radar system. High-accuracy performance is achieved, and detection is nonparametric because of the self-organizing learning process