SOM
Self-Organizing Map
The **Self-Organizing Map (SOM)**, commonly also known as Kohonen network (Kohonen 1982, Kohonen 2001) is a computational method for the visualization and analysis of high-dimensional data, especially experimentally acquired information.

Extracted from [scholarpedia](http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Self-organizing_map)

**Sources**:

Image: [scholarpedia](http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/File:Somnbc.png)

Paper: [Kohonen, T. Self-organized formation of topologically correct feature maps. Biol. Cybern. 43, 59–69 (1982)](https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00337288)

Book: [Self-Organizing Maps](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56927-2)