Detection of welding flaws from radiographic images with fuzzy clustering methods

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 145-158

  Liao, T W ^a   Li, D M ^a   Li, Y M ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Louisiana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Fuzzy clustering; Radiographic NDT technique; Welding flaw

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; RADIOGRAPHY; WELDING; WELDS;

FUZZY CLUSTERING METHODS;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 0033360253     PISSN: 01650114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0114(97)00307-2     Document Type: Article

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