Author: BEZDEK, James. C. & PAL, Sankar, K. eds.
Title: Fuzzy Models For Pattern Recognition: Methods that Search for Structures in Data.
Description: IEEE Press, 1992. Hardcover. 4to. No dustjacket. Professors Bezdek and Pal have been major contributors to both theory and applications of fuzzy models in image processing and pattern recognition. This volume is a selected reprint that contains most of the prominent early contributions in the field. It contains extensive B/W photographs, illustrations, graphs, formulae and tables t/out text. CONTENTS: Ch. 1. Fuzzy Models for Pattern Recognition Background, Significance, and Key Points --Ch. 2. Cluster Analysis. 2.1. Fuzzy Sets / L. A. Zadeh. 2.2. Outline of a New Approach to the Analysis of Complex Systems and Decision Processes / L. A. Zadeh. 2.3. A New Approach to Clustering / E. H. Ruspini. 2.4. An Algorithm for Detecting Unimodal Fuzzy Sets and Its Application as a Clustering Technique / I. Gitman and M. D. Levine. 2.5. A Fuzzy Relative of the ISODATA Process and its Use in Detecting Compact Well-Separated Clusters / J. C. Dunn. 2.6. Pattern Classification Problems and Fuzzy Sets / M. Roubens. 2.7. Fuzzy Clustering with a Fuzzy Covariance Matrix / D. E. Gustafson and W. C. Kessel. 2.8. Geometrical Fuzzy Clustering Algorithms / M. P. Windham. 2.9. A Convergence Theorem for the Fuzzy ISODATA Clustering Algorithms / J. C. Bezdek. 2.10. Convergence Theory for Fuzzy c-Means: Counterexamples and Repairs / J. C. Bezjek, R. J. Hathaway, M. J. Sabin and W. T. Tucker. 2.11. Convergence and Consistency of Fuzzy c-Means/ISODATA Algorithms / M. J. Sabin. 2.12. Similarity Relations and Fuzzy Orderings / L. A. Zadeh. 2.13. Pattern Classification Based on Fuzzy Relations / S. Tamura, S. Higuchi and K. Tanaka. 2.14. A Graph Theoretic Analysis of Pattern Classification via Tamura's Fuzzy Relation / J. C. Dunn. 2.15. Fuzzy Chains / A. Kandel and L. Yelowitz. 2.16. Fuzzy Partitions and Relations: An Axiomatic Basis for Clustering / J. C. Bezdek and J. D. Harris. 2.17. Cluster Validity. Very good condition. 539pp. ISBN 0780304225.

Keywords: Pattern perception fuzzy sets cluster analysis Professors Bezdek Pal theory applications models image processing recognition Sets Analysis Complex Systems Decision Processes Algorithm Detecting Unimodal Sets ISODATA Classification Problems Convergence Con