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Figure 9 | BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Figure 9

From: Case-based medical informatics

Figure 9

Example of self organizing map (associative memory). Each one of the 9-dimensional, 683 individual cases is associated with a region on the 2-dimensional map and highlighted using a 3rd dimension (an "activation bubble" with elevation and colour). The organization of individual descriptions of cases obeys similarity principles: similar cases are closely mapped and very similar cases form clusters (e.g., the green area contains most of the benign cases).

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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

ISSN: 1472-6947

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