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Table 3 Summary of the stepwise ANN parameters

From: A simpler method of preprocessing MALDI-TOF MS data for differential biomarker analysis: stem cell and melanoma cancer studies

Parameter

Setting

ANN architecture

I-2-1. For each run, the increment of 1 node in the input layer, I

Search method

Stepwise

ANN learning algorithm

Backpropagation

ANN activation function

Tanh

Learning rate

0.1

Momentum rate

0.5

Maximum epochs

3000

Window epoch

1000

Threshold for error

0.01

Random sampling

50

Maximum repeats on stepwise

10

Maximum loops on the whole modelling process

10

Cross-validation

Monte-Carlo with the ratio of 60:20:20