A COMPARISON OF NEURAL-NETWORK AND BAYES RECOGNITION APPROACHES IN THE EVALUATION OF THE BRAIN-STEM TRIGEMINAL EVOKED-POTENTIALS IN MULTIPLE-SCLEROSIS

This article describes the application of Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) , Probabilistic Neural Network and Kohonen's Learning Vector Quantizat ion to the problem of diagnosing Multiple Sclerosis. The classificatio n information is obtained from brainstem trigeminal evoked potential. The performance of the neural networks based classifiers is compared w ith that of the human experts and the Bayes classifier. The ability of the MLP classifier to generalize is far better than that of the Bayes classifier. The efficiency of the neural network based classifiers in conjunction with several types of well-known evoked potential feature s, such as Fourier transform space, latency and temporal wave, is exam ined. Although a large clinical data base would be necessary, before t his approach can be fully validated, the initial results are promising .