Retraction Note: Neural Processing Letters (2021) 53:2501–2517

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11063-020-10325-5

The Publisher has retracted this article in agreement with the Editor-in-Chief. The article was submitted to be part of a guest-edited issue. An investigation by the publisher found a number of articles, including this one, with a number of concerns, including but not limited to compromised editorial handling and peer review process, inappropriate or irrelevant references or not being in scope of the journal or guest-edited issue. Based on the investigation’s findings the publisher, in consultation with the Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the results and conclusions of this article.

Daming Li has not responded to any correspondence from the editor/publisher about this retraction. The Publisher has not been able to obtain current email addresses for Lianbing Deng, Wenjian Liu, and Bin Qin.