NEURAL NETWORK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neural network mean? 

• NEURAL NETWORK (noun)
  The noun NEURAL NETWORK has 2 senses:

1. computer architecture in which processors are connected in a manner suggestive of connections between neurons; can learn by trial and error

2. any network of neurons or nuclei that function together to perform some function in the body

  Familiarity information: NEURAL NETWORK used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEURAL NETWORK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Computer architecture in which processors are connected in a manner suggestive of connections between neurons; can learn by trial and error

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

neural net; neural network

Hypernyms ("neural network" is a kind of...):

computer architecture (the art of assembling logical elements into a computing device; the specification of the relation between parts of a computer system)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any network of neurons or nuclei that function together to perform some function in the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

neural net; neural network

Hypernyms ("neural network" is a kind of...):

reticulum (any fine network (especially one in the body composed of cells or blood vessels))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "neural network"):

reticular formation; RF (a complex neural network in the central core of the brainstem; monitors the state of the body and functions in such processes as arousal and sleep and attention and muscle tone)

RAS; reticular activating system (the network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function)

Holonyms ("neural network" is a part of...):

nervous system; systema nervosum (the sensory and control apparatus consisting of a network of nerve cells)

 Context examples 

MistNet is based on neural networks for images and includes several architecture components tailored to the unique characteristics of radar data.

(Using artificial intelligence to track birds' dark-of-night migrations, National Science Foundation)

McDermott's team has also developed an artificial neural network that can recognize sound and music.

(Understanding how the brain makes sense of sound, National Science Foundation)

This allele, which encodes basigin protein, plays a role in the regulation of metalloprotease gene expression, embryo implantation, spermatogenesis and neural network formation.

(BSG wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Kepler-90i wasn't the only jewel this neural network sifted out.

(Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star, NASA)

Rather than being "taught" medical knowledge, the AI was asked to learn using unsupervised deep neural networks, known as autoencoders, without being given any medical knowledge.

(Artificial Intelligence Identifies Features Associated with Cancer Recurrence, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers trained a deep learning model called a convolutional neural network to recognize features of individual storms that affect whether hail will form and how large the hailstones will be, which are difficult to predict.

(Facial recognition technique could improve hail forecasts, National Science Foundation)

Further analysis suggested that the changes in beta oscillations primarily happened in the right hemispheres of the volunteers’ brains and along neural networks connecting the frontal and parietal lobes that are known to help control the planning of movements.

(Brains may use short rest periods to strengthen memories, National Institutes of Health)

Machine learning has previously been used in searches of the Kepler database, and this continuing research demonstrates that neural networks are a promising tool in finding some of the weakest signals of distant worlds.

(Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star, NASA)

To perform this feat the group acquired 13,188 whole-mount pathology slide images of the prostate from Nippon Medical School Hospital (NMSH), The amount of data was enormous, equivalent to approximately 86 billion image patches (sub-images divided for deep neural networks), and the computation was performed on AIP's powerful RAIDEN supercomputer.

(Artificial Intelligence Identifies Features Associated with Cancer Recurrence, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Inspired by the way neurons connect in the human brain, this artificial neural network sifted through Kepler data and found weak transit signals from a previously-missed eighth planet orbiting Kepler-90, in the constellation Draco.

(Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star, NASA)