EFIS-evolving fuzzy image segmentation

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 72-82

  Othman, Ahmed A ^a   Tizhoosh, Hamid R ^a   Khalvati, Farzad ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evolving fuzzy systems; fuzzy inference; image segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894151951     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2013.2246761     Document Type: Article

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