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Several methods to visualize clusters in high-dimensional data sets using the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) have been proposed. However, most of these methods only focus on the information extracted from the model vectors of the SOM. This paper introduces a novel method to visualize the clusters of a SOM based on smoothed data histograms. The method is illustrated using a simple 2-dimensional data set and similarities to other SOM based visualizations and to the posterior probability distribution of the Generative Topographic Mapping are discussed. Furthermore, the method is evaluated on a real world data set consisting of pieces of music.
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Pampalk, E., Rauber, A., Merkl, D. (2002). Using Smoothed Data Histograms for Cluster Visualization in Self-Organizing Maps. In: Dorronsoro, J.R. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks — ICANN 2002. ICANN 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2415. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46084-5_141
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