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BrainMaker Neural Network Application Examples
Stocks, Commodities and Futures
- Currency Price Predictions
- James O'Sullivan: Controls trading of more than 10 different financial markets with consistent profits.
- Corporate Bond Rating
- George Pugh: Predicts corporate bond ratings with 100% accuracy for consulting and trading.
- Standard and Poor's 500 Prediction
- LBS
Capital Management, Inc: Predicts the S&P 500 one day ahead and one
week ahead with better accuracy than traditional methods.
- Forecasting Stock Prices
- Walkrich Investments: Neural Networks rate underpriced stock; beating the S&P.
- Automated Stock Forecasting
- Future Wave Software: Stock Prophet prepares stock data for use with BrainMaker.
- Cost Prediction
- Northern Natural Gas: Predicts gas price change with 97% accuracy.
Business, Management, and Finance
- Cost Prediction
- Northern Natural Gas: Predicts gas price change with 97% accuracy.
- Direct Marketing Mail Prediction
- Microsoft: Improves response rates from 4.9% to 8.2%.
- Credit Scoring
- Herbert Jensen: Predicts loan application success with 75-80% accuracy.
- Real Estate Appraisal
- Richard Borst: Appraises Pennsylvania and New York residential real estate to within 6%.
- Identifing Policemen with Potential for Misconduct
- The Chicago Police Department predict misconduct potentail based on employee records.
- Finding Gold with Neural Networks
- US Mineral Labs uses advanced soil analysis and BrainMaker to find gold deposits.
- Jury Summoning with Neural Networks
- The Montgomery Court House in Norristown, PA saves $70 million annually using The Intelligent Summoner from MEA.
- Forecasting Highway Maintenance with Neural Networks
- Professor
Awad Hanna at the University of Wisconsin in Madison has trained a
neural network to predict which type of concrete is better than another
for a particular highway problem.
Medical Applications
- Breast Cancer Cell Analysis
- David Weinberg, MD: Image analysis ignores benign cells and classifies malignant cells.
- Hospital Expenses Reduced
- Anderson Memorial Hospital: Improves the quality of care, reduces death rate, and saved $500,000 in the first 15 months of use.
- Prediction of Functional Recovery
- V.
Oppenheimer, MD: Hospital personnel use Arcon Group's BrainMaker-based
FACT software over the Internet to predict functional recovery of
in-patients.
- Diagnosing Heart Attacks
- J. Furlong, MD: Recognizes Acute Myocardial Infarction from enzyme data
- Emergency Room Lab Test Ordering
- S. Berkov, MD: Saves time and money ordering tests using symptoms and demographics.
- Classifying Patients for Psychiatric Care
- G. Davis, MD: Predicts Length of Stay for Psychiatric Patients, saving money
- Diagnosing Giant Cell Arteritis with BrainMaker
- Five
doctors have trained a neural network using the American College of
Rheumatology (ACR) database of patients with vasculitis.
Sports Applications
- Thoroughbred Horse Racing
- Don Emmons: 22 races, 17 winning horses.
- Thoroughbred Horse Racing
- Rich Janeva: 39% of winners picked at odds better than 4.5 to 1.
- Dog Racing
- Derek Anderson: 94% accuracy picking first place.
Science
- Solar Flare Prediction
- Dr. Henrik Lundstet: Predicts the next major solar flare; helps prevent problems for power plants.
- Protein Sequence Pattern Recognition
- Dr. George Dombi: Recognizes Transmembrace Helical Regions with 95-98% accuracy.
- Mosquito Identification
- Aubrey Moore: 100% accuracy distinguishing between male and female, two species.
- Spectroscopy
- StellarNet Inc: Analyze spectral data to classify materials.
- Predicting El Nino
- A
research team at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in
Boulder, Colorado has trained a neural network to predict El Nino.
- Weather Forecasting
- Fort Worth National Weather Service: Predict rainfall to 85% accuracy.
- Air Quality Testing
- Researchers
at the Defense Research Establishment Suffield, Chemical &
Biological Defense Section, in Alberta, Canada have trained a neural
network to recognize, classify and characterize aerosols of unknown
origin with a high degree of accuracy.
Manufacturing
- Welding Quality
- Netrologic,
Inc: Recognizes welds which are most likely to fail under stress,
providing increased safety, fewer accidents, and higher production.
- Plastics Testing
- Monsanto: Predicts plastics quality, saving research time, processing time, and manufacturing expense.
- Computer Chip Manufacturing Quality
- Intel: Analyzes chip failures to help improve yields.
- Paper Quality Prediction
- NLK - Celpap: Models pulp manufacturing processes, predicting quality of the paper product.
- Nondestructive Concrete Testing
- Donald G. Pratt: Detects the presence and position of flaws in reinforced concrete.
- Beer Testing
- Anheuser-Busch: Identifies the organic content of competitors' beer vapors with 96% accuracy.
- Optimizing Enzyme Synthesis
- Kirk,
Barfoed, and Bjorkling at NOVO Nordisk A/S in Denmark used
BrainMaker to predict the outcome of a chemical reaction controlled by
molar ratios, temperature, pressure, amount of enzyme and stirring
speed.
- Steam Quality Testing
- AECL
Research in Manitoba, Canada has developed the INSIGHT steam quality
monitor, an instrument used to measure steam quality and mass flowrate.
Pattern Recognition
- Speech Recognition
- Dr. Ortner: Voice mail recognition for rotary phone systems
- Classification of Text
- Electronic Data Publishing: Classifies information read in from OCR
- Working with Chaos
- NetMaker's advanced engineering-style graphics help you search for strange attractors.
- Chemical Drawing Recognition
- Fein-Marquart Assoc: Automated translation into connection tables
- Numerical Sequence Prediction
- Netrologic
was able to predict code sequence accuracy from 62% to 93%, depending
upon the initial conditions and the presence or absence of noise.
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