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An introduction to and overview of the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) methods is presented in this chapter.

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Kohonen, T. (2002). Overture. In: Seiffert, U., Jain, L.C. (eds) Self-Organizing Neural Networks. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 78. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-1810-9_1

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