Multilayer perceptron networks whose outputs consist of affine combinations of hidden units using the tanh activation function are universal function approximators and are used for regression, typically by reducing the MSE with backpropagation. We present a neural network weight learning algorithm that directly positions the hidden units within input space by numerically analyzing the curvature of the output surface. Our results show that under some sampling requirements, this method can reliably recover the parameters of a neural network used to generate a data set.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThirty patients (30 knees) who underwent total knee arthroplasty at age =50 were reviewed. These patients were operated on between July 1, 1991, and May 1, 1995, with final follow-up evaluation at a mean of 86 months (range, 60-107 months). At final evaluation, 18 knees (60%) had excellent Knee Society objective scores, 11 knees (37%) had good scores, and 1 knee (3%) had a poor score.
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