What is Artificial Neural Network?

“a computer system modeled on the

human brain and nervous system.”

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Basic Terminology

● Nervous System
● The network of nerve cells and fibres which
transmits nerve impulses between parts of
the body.
● It interprets the things your body senses,
and it sends information to the muscles
and glands, telling them what to do.

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Basic Terminology

● Neuron
A neuron (also called neuron or nerve cell) is
a cell that carries electrical impulses.
Neurons are the basic units of the nervous
system. Every neuron is made of a cell body
(also called a soma), dendrites and an axon.

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A Human Neuron

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Artificial Neuron

● An artificial neuron is a mathematical

function conceived as a model of biological
neurons, a neural network.
● Artificial neurons are elementary units in
an artificial neural network.
● The artificial neuron receives one or more
inputs and sums them to produce an
output.

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An Artificial Neuron

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Some Real World Applications of
ANNs

● Handwriting Recognition
● Image Compression
● Stock Exchange Predicition
● Autonomous Self Driving cars