Texture enhancement for medical images is the most important technique in medical image diagnosis. This paper introduces a texture enhancement technique for medical images by using fractional differential (FD) masks based on Srivastava-Owa fractional operators. We also construct a 2D isotropic gradient mask based on generalized fractional operators. Texture enhancement performance is measured b...

Consensus based approaches provide a way to drive group decisions which are more accepted and appreciated by decision makers. Different consensus approaches and methodologies have been proposed to conduct these processes successfully, but there still remain some aspects that must be further studied, such as the use and effects of different aggregation operators to measure consensus in the group...

Fuzzy quantifiers, i.e. operators intended to provide a numerical interpretation of natural language (NL) quantifiers like ‘almost all’, are valuable tools for image processing, in particular to express accumulative (second order) properties of fuzzy image regions. However, approaches to fuzzy quantification will unfold their full potential only if the proposed operators capture the meaning of ...

The concepts of system load and capacity are pivotal in risk analysis. The complexity in risk analysis increases when the input parameters are either stochastic (aleatory uncertainty) and/or missing (epistemic uncertainty). The aleatory and epistemic uncertainties related to input parameters are handled through simulation-based parametric and non-parametric probabilistic techniques. The complex...

In several economic fields, such as those related to health, education or poverty, the individuals’ characteristics are measured by bounded variables. Accordingly, these characteristics may be indistinctly represented by achievements or shortfalls. A difficulty arises when inequality needs to be assessed. One may focus either on achievements or on shortfalls but the respective inequality rankin...

The weighted ordered weighted averaging(WOWA) operator introduced by Torra is an important aggregation technique, which includes the famous weighted averaging(WA) operator and the ordered weighted averaging(OWA) operator as special cases. In this paper, we introduce a new hesitant fuzzy decision making technique called the hesitant fuzzy weighted OWA(HFWOWA) operator. It is an extension of the ...

The assessment of goods quality using experts is costly task in addition to their often unavailability. In this paper, we present a new method for ranking physical features of consumer goods according to their relevancy to multiple evaluators’ perception at different levels and selecting the most important ones for quality characterization. The main contribution of the paper is combining of fuz...

In several economic fields, such as those related to health, education or poverty, the individuals’ characteristics are measured by bounded variables. Accordingly, these characteristics may be indistinctly represented by achievements or shortfalls. A difficulty arises when inequality needs to be assessed. One may focus either on achievements or on shortfalls but the respective inequality rankin...

Fuzzy rough set theory can be used as a tool for dealing with inconsistent data when there is gradual notion of indiscernibility between objects. It does this by providing lower and upper approximations concepts. In classical fuzzy sets, the are determined using minimum maximum operators, respectively. This undesirable machine learning applications, since it makes these sensitive to outlying sa...