chapter 1 Introduction to Neural Networks for Signal Processing -- chapter 2 Signal Processing Using the Multilayer Perceptron -- chapter 3 Radial Basis Functions -- chapter 4 An Introduction to Kernel-Based Learning Algorithms -- chapter 5 Committee Machines -- chapter 6 Dynamic Neural Networks and Optimal Signal Processing -- chapter 7 Blind Signal Separation and Blind Deconvolution -- chapter 8 Neural Networks and Principal Component Analysis -- chapter 9 Applications of Artificial Neural Networks to Time Series Prediction -- chapter 10 Applications of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs)to Speech Processing -- chapter 11 Learning and Adaptive Characterization of Visual Contents in Image Retrieval Systems -- chapter 12 Applications of Neural Networks to Biomedical Image Processing -- chapter 13 Hierarchical Fuzzy Neural Networks for Pattern Classification.