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An Improved Approach for Hidden Nodes Selection in Artificial Neural Network
| International Journal of Applied Information Systems |
| Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
| Volume 12 - Number 27 |
| Year of Publication: 2020 |
| Authors: H. N. Odikwa, Nkechi Ifeanyi-Reuben, Osaki Miller Thom-Manuel |
10.5120/ijais2020451837
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H. N. Odikwa, Nkechi Ifeanyi-Reuben, Osaki Miller Thom-Manuel . An Improved Approach for Hidden Nodes Selection in Artificial Neural Network. International Journal of Applied Information Systems. 12, 27 ( February 2020), 7-14. DOI=10.5120/ijais2020451837
Abstract
Training of data in Artificial Neural Network (ANN) imposes a lot of difficulty when determining the number of hidden layers and nodes that will enhance the network convergence in a multi layer perceptron neural network. This study employed a different approach of choosing hidden layers and nodes by taken cognizance of the fact that it is the bedrock of easy network convergence in an artificial neural network by using a heuristic search function of means end analysis. The system adopted the means end analysis algorithm by using a forward and backward chaining to generate current operators and calculating their differences from the goal state which is the target value of the ANN. The system was trained using 500 prostate data and 100 diabetes patient diseases from Federal Medical Center Umuahia in Abia State, Nigeria to train the data in a neural network. The trained data was used for classification. The result revealed that means end analysis is promising to training data in an ANN and yielded accuracies 80%, 82%, 85% for hidden layers between 2 to 20 and hidden nodes between 2 to 6. The classification accuracies of 87%, 90%, 95%, 98% for prostate cancer disease were obtained for hidden layers of 30 to 60 and hidden nodes between 8 to 14. The classification accuracies for diabetes disease were 81%, 85%, 87% for hidden layers of 30 to 60 and 89%, 92.5%, 95%, 98.5% for hidden nodes between 8 to 14 for diabetes disease considering time and space trade-offs.
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