Ultrasonic flaw detection using radial basis function networks (RBFNs)

Ultrasonics

Volumn 42, Issue 1-9, 2004, Pages 361-365

  Gil Pita, R ^a   Vicen, R ^a   Rosa, M ^a   Jarabo, M P ^a   Vera, P ^b   Curpian, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Flaw detection; Neural network; RBFN; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS (RBFN); ULTRASONIC FLAW DETECTION;

ULTRASONICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 1642632807     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2003.11.018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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