Modeling gunshot bruises in soft body armor with an adaptive fuzzy system

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1374-1390

  Lee, Ian ^a   Kosko, Bart ^a   Anderson, W French ^b  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive fuzzy systems; Body armor; Bruise modeling; Bullet backface signature; Function approximation; Tissue simulant

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TISSUE; VECTORS;

ADAPTIVE FUZZY SYSTEMS; BODY ARMOR; BRUISE MODELING; BULLET BACKFACE SIGNATURE; FUNCTION APPROXIMATION; TISSUE SIMULANT;

FUZZY SETS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; FUZZY LOGIC; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 29144503730     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2005.855585     Document Type: Article

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