Artificial intelligence techniques for the automatic interpretation of data from non-destructive testing

Insight: Non-Destructive Testing and Condition Monitoring

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 10-20

  Yella, Siril ^a,b   Dougherty, Mark S ^a   Gupta, Naren K ^b  

^a DALARNA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; CONDITION MONITORING; FUZZY SETS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES; AUTOMATIC DATA INTERPRETATION; RAIL INSPECTION; RAIL TRANSPORT;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 30744464333     PISSN: 13542575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1784/insi.2006.48.1.10     Document Type: Review

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