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and a single hidden layer of log-sigmoidal nodes. We evaluated configurations of

the neural networks with different number of nodes in the hidden layer. The neural

classifiers were trained using the back-propagation algorithm.

6.1.1.4 Final Results and Discussion

The best subsets of features estimated by the forward-selection method are reported

in Table 6.1. Table 6.2 compares the classification accuracy obtained by the

Table 6.1 Feature Subsets Used to Evaluate the Implemented Quality

Assessment Method

Dataset Feature Subset

Bq-5 [1, 2, 6, 7, 35, 40, 41, 45]

Bq-2 [1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 31, 37, 38, 42]

Cq-5 [1, 6, 7, 41, 42, ...