Welding defect pattern recognition in radiographic images of gas pipelines using adaptive feature extraction method and neural network classifier

International Gas Union World Gas Conference Papers

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 880-892

  Mansouri Alghalandis, S ^a   Nozad Alamdari, Gh ^a  

^a Dist 8 of Gas Transmission Operation   (Iran)

Author keywords

Adaptive feature extraction; Neural network classifier; Radiographic pattern recognition; Welding defect detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547676831     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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