Uncertainty in mineral prospectivity prediction

Pawalai Kraipeerapun*, Chun Che Fung, Warick Brown, Kok Wai Wong, Tamás Gedeon

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    Abstract

    This paper presents an approach to the prediction of mineral prospectivity that provides an assessment of uncertainty. Two feedforward backpropagation neural networks are used for the prediction. One network is used to predict degrees of favourability for deposit and another one is used to predict degrees of likelihood for barren, which is opposite to deposit. These two types of values are represented in the form of truth-membership and false-membership, respectively. Uncertainties of type error in the prediction of these two memberships are estimated using multidimensional interpolation. These two memberships arid their uncertainties are combined to predict mineral deposit locations. The degree of uncertainty of type vagueness for each cell location is estimated and represented in the form of indeterminacy-membership value. The three memberships are then constituted into an interval neutrosophic set. Our approach improves classification performance compared to an existing technique applied only to the truth-membership value.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationNeural Information Processing - 13th International Conference, ICONIP 2006, Proceedings
    PublisherSpringer Verlag
    Pages841-849
    Number of pages9
    ISBN (Print)3540464816, 9783540464815
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2006
    Event13th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2006 - Hong Kong, China
    Duration: 3 Oct 20066 Oct 2006

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume4233 LNCS - II
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Conference

    Conference13th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2006
    Country/TerritoryChina
    CityHong Kong
    Period3/10/066/10/06

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