In practice, self-organizing map clustering is often used to validate k-means clustering. A relatively unexplored idea is to perform SOM clustering using an r-by-c map instead of a 1-by-k map. When ...

Self-organizing maps can be used for several purposes other than clustering. A standard, non-clustering SOM usually creates a square matrix, such as 4-by-4, called the map. For a clustering SOM, even ...