itkMultilayerNeuralNetworkBase.h

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  Program:   Insight Segmentation & Registration Toolkit
  Module:    $RCSfile: itkMultilayerNeuralNetworkBase.h,v $
  Language:  C++
  Date:      $Date: 2009-01-28 21:04:59 $
  Version:   $Revision: 1.11 $

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#ifndef __itkMultilayerNeuralNetworkBase_h
#define __itkMultilayerNeuralNetworkBase_h

#include "itkNeuralNetworkObject.h"
#include "itkLayerBase.h"

namespace itk
{
namespace Statistics
{

template<class TMeasurementVector, class TTargetVector,class TLearningLayer=LayerBase<TMeasurementVector, TTargetVector> >
class MultilayerNeuralNetworkBase : public NeuralNetworkObject<TMeasurementVector, TTargetVector>
{
public:
  
  typedef MultilayerNeuralNetworkBase  Self;
  typedef NeuralNetworkObject<TMeasurementVector, TTargetVector>
                                       Superclass;
  typedef SmartPointer<Self>           Pointer;
  typedef SmartPointer<const Self>     ConstPointer;
  
  itkTypeMacro(MultilayerNeuralNetworkBase, NeuralNetworkObject);

  itkNewMacro( Self );

  typedef typename Superclass::ValueType             ValueType;
  typedef typename Superclass::MeasurementVectorType MeasurementVectorType;
  typedef typename Superclass::TargetVectorType      TargetVectorType;
  typedef typename Superclass::NetworkOutputType     NetworkOutputType;

  typedef typename Superclass::LayerInterfaceType        LayerInterfaceType;
  
  typedef TLearningLayer                                 LearningLayerType;
  typedef LearningFunctionBase<typename TLearningLayer::LayerInterfaceType, TTargetVector>
                                                         LearningFunctionInterfaceType;

  typedef std::vector<typename LayerInterfaceType::WeightSetInterfaceType::Pointer>
                                                         WeightVectorType;
        typedef std::vector<typename LayerInterfaceType::Pointer>
                                                         LayerVectorType;

        typedef TransferFunctionBase<ValueType>          TransferFunctionInterfaceType;
        typedef InputFunctionBase<ValueType*, ValueType> InputFunctionInterfaceType;

//#define __USE_OLD_INTERFACE  Comment out to ensure that new interface works
#ifdef __USE_OLD_INTERFACE
  itkSetMacro(NumOfLayers, int);
  itkGetConstReferenceMacro(NumOfLayers, int);

  itkSetMacro(NumOfWeightSets, int);
  itkGetConstReferenceMacro(NumOfWeightSets, int);
#else
  int GetNumOfLayers(void) const
    {
    return m_Layers.size();
    }
  int GetNumOfWeightSets(void) const
    {
    return m_Weights.size();
    }
  
#endif

  void AddLayer(LayerInterfaceType *);
  LayerInterfaceType * GetLayer(int layer_id);
  const LayerInterfaceType * GetLayer(int layer_id) const;
  
  void AddWeightSet(typename LayerInterfaceType::WeightSetInterfaceType*);
  typename LayerInterfaceType::WeightSetInterfaceType* GetWeightSet(unsigned int id)
    {
    return m_Weights[id].GetPointer();
    }
#ifdef __USE_OLD_INTERFACE
  const typename LayerInterfaceType::WeightSetInterfaceType* GetWeightSet(unsigned int id) const;
#endif
  
  void SetLearningFunction(LearningFunctionInterfaceType* f);

  virtual NetworkOutputType GenerateOutput(TMeasurementVector samplevector);

  virtual void BackwardPropagate(NetworkOutputType errors);
  virtual void UpdateWeights(ValueType);

  void SetLearningRule(LearningFunctionInterfaceType*);

  void SetLearningRate(ValueType learningrate);

  void InitializeWeights();

protected:
  MultilayerNeuralNetworkBase();
  ~MultilayerNeuralNetworkBase();

  LayerVectorType                                   m_Layers;
  WeightVectorType                                  m_Weights;
  typename LearningFunctionInterfaceType::Pointer   m_LearningFunction;
  ValueType                                         m_LearningRate;
  //#define __USE_OLD_INTERFACE  Comment out to ensure that new interface works
#ifdef __USE_OLD_INTERFACE
  //These are completely redundant variables that can be more reliably queried from
  // m_Layers->size() and m_Weights->size();
  int                             m_NumOfLayers;
  int                             m_NumOfWeightSets;
#endif

  virtual void PrintSelf( std::ostream& os, Indent indent ) const;
};

} // end namespace Statistics
} // end namespace itk

#ifndef ITK_MANUAL_INSTANTIATION
#include "itkMultilayerNeuralNetworkBase.txx"
#endif

#endif

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