Examining the Behaviour of the Evolving Tree

Abstract- We analyze the Evolving Tree, which is a tree-shaped hierarchical neural network. Especially we try to shed light on its growth process and performance when compared to classical methods. Several visualizations done with Sammon's mapping show that while the Evolving Tree describes the data set very dierently its performance is comparable to the classical methods. Key words- hierarchical clustering, tree-shaped neural networks, Evolving Tree, defect images