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In this section two digital models evolved from biological cortical models will be presented. The first is the Pulse-Coupled Neural Network (PCNN) which for many years was the standard model for many image processing applications. The PCNN is based solely on the Eckhorn model but there are many other cortical models that exist. These models all have a common mathematical foundation, but beyond the common foundation each also had unique terms. Since the goal here is to build image processing routines and not to exactly simulate the biological system a new model was constructed. This model contained the common foundation without the extra terms and is therefore viewed as the intersection of several cortical models and it is named the Intersecting Cortical Model (ICM).
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Lindblad, T., Kinser, J.M. (2013). The PCNN and ICM. In: Image Processing using Pulse-Coupled Neural Networks. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36877-6_4
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