System and Method for Determining Class Discrimination Features

摘要

A system for generating a minimal ANN architecture having as inputs the minimalnumber of features necessary to discriminate between event classes. A network generator generates an initial ANN architecture. A training processor generates a trained ANN by trains the initial ANN to a desired degree of accuracy. A pruning processor prunes the trained ANN by removing interconnections and nodes from the trained ANN. The training processor and pruning processor continue to train and prune the ANN until a minimal network architecture having the class discrimination features as its only inputs is obtained.