Improving artificial neural networks with a pruning methodology and genetic algorithms for their application in microbial growth prediction in food

被引:63
作者
García-Gimeno, RM
Hervás-Martínez, C
de Silóniz, MI
机构
[1] Univ Cordoba, Dept Food Sci & Technol, Cordoba 14014, Spain
[2] Univ Cordoba, Dept Comp Sci & Numer Anal, Cordoba 14014, Spain
[3] Univ Complutense Madrid, Fac Biol, Dept Microbiol 3, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
关键词
computational neural networks; genetic algorithms; pruning; regularization; microbe growth; response surface model; Lactobacillus plantarum;
D O I
10.1016/S0168-1605(01)00608-0
中图分类号
TS2 [食品工业];
学科分类号
0832 ;
摘要
The application of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) in predictive microbiology is presented in this paper. This technique was used to build up a predictive model of the joint effect of NaCl concentration, pH level and storage temperature on kinetic parameters of the growth curve of Lactobacillus plantarum using ANN and Response Surface Model (RSM). Sigmoid functions were fitted to the data and kinetic parameters were estimated and used to build the models in which the independent variables were the factors mentioned above (NaCl. pH. temperature), and in some models, the values of the optical densities (OH) vs. time of the growth curve were also included in order to improve the error of estimation. The determination of the proper size of an ANN was the first step of the estimation. This study shows the usefulness of an ANN pruning methodology. The pruning of the network is a process consisting of removing unnecessary parameters (weights) and nodes during the training process of the network without losing its generalization capacity. The best architecture has been sought using genetic algorithms (GA) in conjunction with pruning algorithms and regularization methods in which the initial distribution of the parameters (weights) of the network is not uniform. The ANN model has been compared with the response surface model by means of the Standard Error of Prediction (SEP). The best values obtained were 14.04% of SEP for the growth rate and 14.84% for the lag estimation by the best ANN model, which were much better than those obtained by the RSM, 35.63% and 39.30%, respectively. These were very promising results that, in our opinion, open tip an extremely important field of research. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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