Self growing cluster development approach to data mining

Abstract

We describe a data analysis method using a structure adapting neural network with two additional layers. The neural network used is an extended version of a self organizing feature map which can adapt it's structure to better represent the clusters in data. Once the clusters are identified, we use two additional layers on the feature map to analyze the clusters and the representation of attributes in the clusters. Simulations and initial results with two simple benchmark data sets are also described.