Fuzzy reasoning based automatic inspection of radiographic welds: Weld recognition

Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 69-85

  Liao, T W ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Fuzzy expert system; Fuzzy rules extraction; Pattern recognition; Radiography; Welding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; RADIOGRAPHY; WELDS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

FUZZY EXPERT SYSTEMS; FUZZY RULES EXTRACTION;

FUZZY CONTROL;

EID: 1042300747     PISSN: 09565515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JIMS.0000010076.56537.07     Document Type: Article

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