Learning symbolic descriptions of shape for object recognition in X-ray images

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 11-20

  Maloof, Marcus A ^a   Michalski, Ryszard S ^a,b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

DECISION TREE LEARNING PROGRAM; K NEAREST NEIGHBOR; MULTILAYER FEED FORWARD NEURAL NETWORK; STATISTICAL PATTERN RECOGNITION;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030778013     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0957-4174(96)00076-0     Document Type: Article

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