The Self-Organizing Map as a Tool in Knowledge Engineering
Johan Himberg, Jussi Ahola, Esa J. Alhoniemi, Juha Vesanto, Olli Simula · Fuzzy Logic Systems Institute (FLSI) soft computing series · 2001
The Self-Organizing Map (SOM) is one of the most popular neural network methods. It is a powerful tool in visualization and analysis of high-dimensional data in various engineering applications. The SOM maps the data on a two-dimensional grid which may be used as a base for various kinds of visual approaches for clustering, correlation and novelty detection. In this chapter, we present novel methods that enhance the SOM based visualization in correlation hunting and novelty detection. These methods are applied to two industrial case studies: analysis of hot rolling of steel and continuous pulp process.