An overview of membership function generation techniques for pattern recognition

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 19, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 391-417

  Medasani, Swarup ^a   Kim, Jaeseok ^b   Krishnapuram, Raghu ^a  

^a Advanced Coatings and Surface Engineering Laboratory   (United States)

^b Samsung Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Clustering; K nearest neighbor; Membership function generation; Mixture decomposition; Multiprototype classification; Probability to possibility transformations; Typicality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000418873     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0888-613X(98)10017-8     Document Type: Article

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