A Comparative Study on Morphological Neural Networks for Binary Classification

Abstract

Morphological neural networks represent a class of artificial neural networks whose neurons perform an operation from mathematical morphology followed by the application of an activation function. This paper provides a comparative study of different approaches that use morphological neural networks. Specifically, according to the training rule, we review incremental approaches, approaches based on maximum descent methods, extreme learning machines, and convex-concave optimization procedures. Computational experiments showed that, on average, the reduced dilation-erosion perceptron with bagging and ensemble strategies had better results in several binary classification problems.