Comparative Study of Self-Organizing Neural Networks in Signal Detection and Classification

A benchmark study of two self-organizing artificial neural network models, ART2 and DIGNET, is conducted. The architecture differences and learning procedures between these two models are compared. The performance of ART2 and DIGNET on data clustering and signal detection problems with noise or interference is investigated by comparative simulations. It is shown that DIGNET generally has faster learning and better clustering performance on the statistical pattern recognition problems. DIGNET has a simpler architecture, and the system parameters can be analytically determined from the self-organizing process. The threshold value used in DIGNET can be specifically determined from a given lower bound on the desirable signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The networks discussed in this paper are applied and benchmarked against clustering and signal detection problems.