Computational models of neuron-astrocyte interactions lead to improved efficacy in the performance of neural networks

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Computational models of neuron-astrocyte interactions lead to improved efficacy in the performance of neural networksDate
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Alvarellos-González A, Pazos A, Porto-Pazos AB. Computational models of neuron-astrocyte interactions lead to improved efficacy in the performance of neural networks. Comput Math Methods Med. 2012; 2012 [10 p.]
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[Abstract] The importance of astrocytes, one part of the glial system, for information processing in the brain has recently been demonstrated. Regarding information processing in multilayer connectionist systems, it has been shown that systems which include artificial neurons and astrocytes (Artificial Neuron-Glia Networks) have well-known advantages over identical systems including only artificial neurons. Since the actual impact of astrocytes in neural network function is unknown, we have investigated, using computational models, different astrocyte-neuron interactions for information processing; different neuron-glia algorithms have been implemented for training and validation of multilayer Artificial Neuron-Glia Networks oriented toward classification problem resolution. The results of the tests performed suggest that all the algorithms modelling astrocyte-induced synaptic potentiation improved artificial neural network performance, but their efficacy depended on the complexity of the problem.
Keywords
Algorithms
Astrocytes
Cell communication
Neurological models
Nerve net
Neural networks (Computer)
Neurons
Astrocytes
Cell communication
Neurological models
Nerve net
Neural networks (Computer)
Neurons
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1748-670X
1748-6718
1748-6718