Research Article

Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and Artificial Neural Networks Applied to Differentiate Escherichia coli Strains

Table 1

The results obtained for ANNs classifying E. coli strains.

IDTopologyQuality Quality Quality Learning Error Activation function Activation function
(learning)(testing)(validation)algorithmfunction(hidden neurons)(output neurons)

1MLP 19-5-297,02%93,51%99,07%BFGS 89SOSTanhLinear
2MLP 19-6-286,50%87,04%82,40%BFGS 40SOSTanhLinear
3MLP 19-7-294,04%90,74%89,81%BFGS 55SOSTanhLinear
4MLP 19-8-296,42%92,59%88,89%BFGS 103SOSTanhLinear

MLP: multilayer perceptron, BFGS: Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno algorithm, SOS: sum of squares, Tanh: hyperbolic tangent, Linear: linear function.