Overview of Artificial Neural Networks and its Applications

The term'Neural' is derived from the human (animal) nervous system's basic functional unit'neuron' or nerve cells which are present in the brain and other parts of the human (animal) body. Dendrite -- It receives signals from other neurons. Soma (cell body) -- It sums all the incoming signals to generate input. Axon -- When the sum reaches a threshold value, neuron fires and the signal travels down the axon to the other neurons. The amount of signal transmitted depend upon the strength (synaptic weights) of the connections.