On Nov 20, 2007 1:36 AM, Bryan Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 19 November 2007 01:07, Joel Pitt wrote:
> > Brain scanning technology which, interestingly, is using ANNs to
> > construct maps of biological neural networks.
>
> I read the article and I don't see how ANNs increase the rate of neurons
> or connections scanned per minute. It looks like the problem is data
> analysis. If that's the case, start selling large data sets and giving
> them to researchers so that they can come up with optimized algorithms,
> yes?

I suspect they are now using them to do image analysis... and they
probably used to do that by hand ;P

They probably have the funding to collect and analyse the data
themselves, so although they may release the data eventually, they
have to show some capability of generating novel results to keep the
people with purse strings happy.

J

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