“…Particularly, in the past decade numerous attempts have been made to pursue the possibility of using various neural networks (NNs) for image compression (see, for example, [9], [11], and [14] for reviews). Autoassociative neural networks [3], the Kohonen self-organizing map (SOM) [1], [7], cellular neural networks [21], [24], and counter-propagation neural networks [23], among others, have been proposed in the literature. In this paper, we are particularly interested in multilayer perceptron (MLP)-type feedforward NNs (FNNs) due to their structural elegance, abundance of training algorithms, and good generalization capabilities [6], [19].…”